State v. Council in the Division of Resource Development of the Department of Conservation

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a permissible adverse inference applies if there is “[a] conscious awareness of the existence of a dispute with another and a conscious awareness that an act done will destroy evidence or access to evidence”
• stating that a permissible adverse inference applies if there is \[a] conscious awareness of the existence of a dispute with another and a conscious awareness that an act done will destroy evidence or access to evidence\
• “behavior of a litigant with respect to relevant evidence may permit an inference that his behavior was prompted by a conscious appreciation that the evidence would or might be hurtful to his position”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).