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Adverse Inference Instruction Required for New York Jail’s Destruction of Video Evidence
Loaded on March 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2014, page 36
The New York Court of Appeals has held that when a criminal defendant acts with due diligence to demand the preservation of evidence that is reasonably likely to be of material importance, and the evidence is destroyed by the state, the defendant is entitled to an adverse inference jury instruction. ...
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Evidence,
Jury Instructions.
Location:
New York.
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