United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's convictions and sentence resulting from his involvement with a methamphetamine lab is affirmed over defendant's primary challenge that the Government denied him due process when officers seized and immediately disposed of the methamphetamine lab pursuant to standard police department policy, because defendant failed to show that police officers acted in bad faith when they destroyed potentially exculpatory evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2007
• Published 09/06/2007

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, EBEL and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mary C. Corporon, Corporon, Williams & Bradford, P.C., Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Joshua Chad Beckstead., Diana Hagen, Assistant United States Attorney (Stephen J. Sorenson, United States Attorney, with her on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America.