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Scoggins v. State

Citations

  • 802 P.2d 631
  • 111 N.M. 122

How courts have described this case

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  • applying the Chouinard test where the State lost various evidence of a methamphetamine lab
  • supreme court held loss of original fingerprints crucial since it prejudicially limited defendant's ability to impeach determinative evidence linking him to methamphetamine lab
  • supreme court held loss of original fingerprints crucial since it prejudicially limited defendant's ability to impeach determinative evidence linking him to methamphetamine lab
  • prejudice shown where “virtually no other credible evidence” supported defendant’s guilt except the lost evidence

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Judges: Sosa, Ransom, Montgomery, Wilson, Baca

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