The Closing Statement
A court, civil or criminal, may draw an adverse inference from the destruction of evidence.
In plain terms: if you destroyed it, the judge may assume it said the worst thing it could have said, and may tell a jury they are permitted to assume that too.
Marguerite Okonjo said it to the board in November in one sentence that got back to me third-hand.
She said: “He has just converted a difficult document case into an easy conduct case.”
Did Arthur’s driveway mistake cost us?