STATE v. LEATHERWOOD

No. 14165.

656 P.2d 760 (1982)

104 Idaho 100

STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Neil LEATHERWOOD, Defendant-Appellant.

Idaho Court of Appeals.

December 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jill Kirshner, Deputy Public Defender, Boise, for defendant-appellant.

David H. Leroy, Atty. Gen., Lynn E. Thomas, Sol. Gen., Stephen J. Gledhill, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for plaintiff-respondent.


BURNETT, Judge.

We are asked to decide whether a criminal defendant was denied due process by police failure to preserve tape recordings of certain telephone conversations. The facts framing this issue began to unfold in a Boise restaurant. While a patron of the restaurant was eating dinner, his attention was drawn to a public telephone near his table. There he saw and heard another person call the police and say that a certain...

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