Thorne v. Department of Public Safety

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

A Soldotna police officer arrested Mark Thorne for driving while intoxicated. Thorne performed field sobriety tests at the scene of the accident just prior to the arrest and again at the Wildwood Pretrial Facility approximately an hour later. The police videotaped the tests given at the Pretrial Facility but destroyed that videotape prior to the civil license revocation hearing. This appeal addresses whether the failure to preserve the videotape of the field sobriety tests performed at, the Pretrial Facility violated Thorne’s constitutional rights to due process and to…