CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Criminal
............Evidence Consumed by Test
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D not deprived of due process when DA's test, by necessity, consumes evidence making retest by D impossible.

Because bloodstain evidence from D's jacket was inculpatory rather than exculpatory, Trombetta test not satisfied and failure of police properly to preserve jacket in frozen state not due process violation.