What is the test for assessing bad faith in police misconduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Leverette, B292120 (Cal. App. 2021):
assessment of bad faith 'must necessarily turn on the police's knowledge of the exculpatory value of the evidence at the time it was lost or destroyed.'" (People v. Flores (2020) 9 Cal.5th 371, 394; see People v. Carrasco (2014) 59 Cal.4th 924, 962.)
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