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Guzman v. State

Citations

  • 539 S.W.3d 394

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  • concluding that negligent failure to preserve evidence does not rise to level of due process violation
  • concluding spoliation instruction was not required where defendant failed to establish potentially useful evidence destroyed in bad faith
  • stating that spoliation involves “potentially useful evidence”
  • “A defendant must affirmatively show that the lost evidence was favorable and material to his defense.”

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Judges: Bland, Jennings, Lloyd

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