What is the test for determining whether a police officer destroyed or disposed of a complaint file?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Zamora, 155 Cal.Rptr. 109, 92 Cal.App.3d 614 (Cal. App. 1979):
16 Assuming that the nature of the destroyed complaint files could support such an inference, the instruction to the jury might also state that the officers had previously exhibited evidence of racial prejudice. (See Hinojosa v. Superior Court, supra, 55 Cal.App.3d 692, 696, 127 Cal.Rptr. 664.)
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