United States v. Wayne R. Cooper and Vincent Gammill

BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

Because of the government’s bad faith actions, the laboratory equipment seized from Apotheosis Research lies broken and buried in a toxic waste dump. This equipment cannot be introduced at trial. It can neither support nor undermine Wayne Cooper and Vincent Gammill’s repeated assertion that their lab lacked the physical capability to manufacture methamphetamine.

We consider here whether Cooper and Gammill have a comparable, alternative means to support their assertion of innocence. We conclude that no alternative matches the potentially powerful exculpatory evidence…