Legal Opinion
Arizona v. Youngblood
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 23, 1989No. 86-1904PublishedCited by 2,731 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Respondent Larry Youngblood was convicted by a Pima County, Arizona, jury of child molestation, sexual assault, and kidnaping. The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed his conviction on the ground that the State had failed to preserve semen samples from the victim’s body and clothing. 153 Ariz. 50, 734 P. 2d 592 (1986). We granted certiorari to consider the extent to which the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the State to preserve evidentiary material that might be useful to a criminal defendant.
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