State v. Mohamud

Chief Justice Durrant,

opinion of the Court:

Introduction

¶ 1 This case, along with State v. DeJesus,1 requires us to apply the due process analysis *136we set forth in State v. Tiedemann,2 which addresses the due process rights of criminal defendants when evidence has been lost or destroyed. Defendant Khalid Mohamud was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to fifteen years in prison for possessing a shank in prison. He argues on appeal that a video recording of the discovery of the shank was lost or destroyed by the State and that this loss of evidence violated his due process rights and…