California v. Trombetta, No. 83-305 (U.S. Supreme Court) (467 U.S. 479; 104 S.Ct. 2528) (June 11, 1984) (Justice Marshall)

Loaded on Sept. 30, 2001

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of.

Case held that Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require that law enforcement agencies preserve breath samples in order to introduce the results of breath-analysis tests at trial.

This decision, together with Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988), set forth the tests enunciated by the Supreme ...

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