State v. Engle

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This case concerns the conviction of an armed security guard who shot a theft suspect while trying to apprehend him. Timothy Engle appeals from his conviction of reckless discharge of a firearm within a municipality. Engle contends that the state violated his due-process rights by failing to preserve digitally recorded surveillance video footage that might have shown an eyewitness, and that this failure prejudiced him. Engle also maintains that the district court misconstrued the reckless-discharge statute to not require proof that he intentionally discharged his firearm.…