Petition of the day
By Aurora Barnes
on Dec 22, 2017

The petition of the day is:
17-816
Issue: Whether the police acted in bad faith and thus violated petitioner’s due process rights where the trial court found that the police knowingly destroyed potentially exculpatory evidence as part of a pattern of “cavalier” disregard for the state’s obligation to preserve such evidence, and the absence of the destroyed evidence was prejudicial to the petitioner’s ability to present his alibi.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Earley v. New Jersey
Recommended Citation:
Aurora Barnes,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Dec. 22, 2017, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/12/petition-of-the-day-1288/