Stepnes v. Ritschel

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[s]evere spoliation sanctions, such as an adverse inference instruction, are only appropriate upon a showing of bad faith”
• “Severe spoliation sanctions, such as an adverse inference instruction, are only appropriate upon a showing of bad faith.”
• “Severe spoliation sanctions . . . are only appropriate upon a showing of bad faith.”
• “[O]fficers are not required to conduct a ‘mini-trial’ before arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).