SWEENEY, J.
¶ 1 The State is required as a matter of due process of law to preserve evidence that tends to exculpate a criminal defendant of the crime with which he is charged. Here, the fact that a stolen laptop computer did not work (a fact not in controversy) was not exculpatory. Therefore, the State's failure to retain the computer or computer-related records did not violate the defendant's right to due process of law. Moreover, the evidence of the defendant...
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