Due Process – Victim Interview

By: Derek Hawkins//January 25, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District III

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Scott L. Hull

Case No.: 2016AP364-CR

Officials: Stark, P.J., Hruz and Seidl, JJ.

Focus: Due Process – Victim Interview

Scott Hull appeals a judgment convicting him of second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated person. He contends the State violated his due process rights by failing to preserve the victim’s recorded interviews with police. Because Hull failed to establish the interviews were “apparently exculpatory,” or that they were potentially exculpatory and the police acted in bad faith, we affirm the judgment.

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