United States v. Russell Collins

How courts have described this case

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• “The first test, established in Trombetta, applies in cases where the government fails to preserve material exculpatory evidence, while the second test, established in [Youngblood], applies in cases where the government fails to preserve ‘potentially useful’ evidence.”
• “[T]o establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel ensuing from government surveillance, a claimant must . . . show . . . that the information gained was used to prejudice the claimant’s defense in his criminal trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).