State v. Hardy

We grant the State’s application to consider the propriety of orders issued by the district court, and affirmed by the court of appeal, which directed the prosecution to preserve and protect already collected biologic evidence, relative to this case, and prohibited the “undertaking or completing” by the prosecution of any further collection, examination, review, or testing of the biologic evidence, without prior notice to the defense and without allowing an opportunity for the defense to “appear at, witness and record such undertakings.” For the reasons that follow, we vacate the district…