McCarthy v. Pollard

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting Wisconsin’s bifurcation of Trombetta and Youngblood, and stating that destruction of “potentially exculpatory evidence” violates due process if, among other things, “the exculpatory value of the evidence was apparent before it was destroyed”
• police who destroyed vehicle could not have known the defendant would later allege that his brakes had failed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).