Legal Opinion
Chouinard v. State
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided November 25, 1980No. 4361PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDREWS, Judge.
The defendant in this action was indicted on a variety of counts charging trafficking of a substance which was alleged to be cocaine during the period of May to August, 1977. After promising to appear in October, 1977, the defendant absconded for some twenty months and was re-arrested in May, 1979. During the pendency of his abscondence, the State negligently destroyed the substance underlying all but Count VII of the indictment. Because the prosecution only had a sample of the substance which formed the basis of the criminal complaint as to Count VII, that count was…
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