Stephan J. Lawrence v. Marina Tower of Turnberry Isle Condominium Association, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “where the government is negligent, even grossly negligent, in failing to preserve potential exculpatory evidence, the bad faith requirement is not satisfied”
• stating, in the context of a claim against a fire investigator, that “[t]he destruction of material exculpatory evidence violates due process regardless of whether the government acted in bad faith”
• reviewing de novo disposition of motion to dismiss indictment based on the government’s failure to preserve exculpatory evidence
• stating, in the context of a claim against a fire investigator, that “[t]he destruction of material exculpatory evidence violates due process regardless of whether the government acted in bad faith”
• “The destruction of material exculpatory evidence violates due process regardless of whether the government acted in bad faith.”
• “Even if the fire investigators were negligent in failing to preserve electrical evidence, negligence does not constitute bad faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).