People v. Travis

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• holding that the trial court may allow limited discovery on the evidence’s chain of custody
• holding that the trial court may allow limited discovery on the evidence’s chain of custody
• noting that “no final decision or notification should be made until it has been carefully verified that evidence did not or does not still exist”
• “It asks too much to require petitioning defendant in these cases to plead and prove proper chain of custody at the outset, for the evidence at issue will undoubtedly have been within the safekeeping of the State, not the defendant.”
• “Inspection of the record in the present case reveals that the trial court applied the incorrect standard. However, we will affirm if we find that the result would have been the same had the trial court applied the correct standard.”
• “It asks too much to require petitioning defendant in these cases to 9 plead and prove proper chain of custody at the outset, for the evidence at issue will undoubtedly have been within the safekeeping of the State, not the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).