Government of the Virgin Islands v. Paul Testamark

How courts have described this case

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• conceivably negligently destroyed blood sample could have supported incompetent to form intent to rape defense, but defendant’s own description of his actions unwaveringly pointed to competence
• “[T]he . . . failure to take adequate steps to preserve evidence may deny a defendant due process, and thereby jeopardize otherwise viable convictions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).