State v. Osakalumi

How courts have described this case

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

• holding as a matter of state constitutional law that \fundamental fairness requires [the court] to evaluate the State's failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence in the context of the entire record\
• examining criminal defendant’s right to fair trial in light of negligent failure to preserve evidence
• reversing a first degree murder conviction because the state destroyed potentially useful defense evidence
• “When the State had or should have had evidence requested by a criminal defendant but the evidence no longer exists when the defendant seeks its production, a trial court must determine (1
• “we have previously set our state constitutional protections, in some instances, at a higher level than that accorded by the federal constitution[.]”
• even though police acted negligently in disposing of a couch [with a bullet hole] that “was so obviously a part of a pending police investigation,” court could not say their actions were motivated by bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).