United States v. Femia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “district court clearly erred,in finding a due process violation because [the evidence] was destroyed to the government’s gross negligence, not bad faith”
• holding that the government’s destruction of tape recordings of conversations between defendant and alleged coconspirators did not violate due process, despite the government’s gross negligence in failing to preserve them
• holding that in “missing evidence cases,” the good faith/bad faith question is “dispositive”
• finding no bad faith where evidence was destroyed even though defendant had been charged and remained a fugitive
• distinguishing in the context of the Youngblood analysis “the government’s gross negligence” from bad faith
• distinguishing in the context of the Youngblood analysis \the government's gross negligence\ from bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).