Thorne v. Department of Public Safety

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• holding that the appellant’s “due process rights at the revocation hearing were violated by the state’s failure to preserve the videotape”
• holding that procedural safeguards \include the right to consider the inherent margin of error in breathalyzer test results\
• holding that the State’s destruction of a videotape showing the defendant’s performance on field sobriety tests violated due process
• recognizing that notions of due process and fundamental fairness require that a defendant in an administrative hearing on driver’s license revocation be permitted to cross-examine witnesses
• holding that the State's failure to preserve a videotape of field sobriety tests taken an hour after a DWI arrest violated the driver's right to due process in a license revocation hearing
• holding that the State's failure to preserve a videotape of field sobriety tests taken an hour after a DWI arrest violated the driver's right to due process in a license revocation hearing

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