People Ex Rel. Gallagher v. DIST. COURT, ETC.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the police’s failure to conduct a trace-metal test on victim’s hands before burial was a suppression of evidence when it was “implausible” that the “test had no value”
• upholding a reduction in charge from first degree to second degree murder when police officers failed to preserve the victim's hands in a condition suitable for a trace metal test and that test was the only means to corroborate the defense theory that the victim held the gun
• upholding a reduction in charge from first degree to second degree murder when police officers failed to preserve the victim’s hands in a condition suitable for a trace metal test and that test was the only means to corroborate the defense theory that the victim held the gun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).