Opinion ID: 2103902
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: blood on appellant's clothing.

Text: Appellant does not claim that evidence of traces of the victim's blood on his clothing was irrelevant. He claims that the evidence should have been suppressed because police investigators had discarded the victim's bloody clothing, believing it had no probative value. Appellant's theory is that the jury could have inferred from the substantial amount of blood on the victim's clothing that the trace stains on his own clothing did not result from the same occurrence. To warrant any relief, Appellant was required to demonstrate bad faith on the part of the police. Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51, 57, 109 S.Ct. 333, 337, 102 L.Ed.2d 281, 289 (1988); Kirk v. Commonwealth, Ky., 6 S.W.3d 823 (1999). At best, Appellant would have been entitled to a missing evidence instruction, Collins v. Commonwealth, Ky., 951 S.W.2d 569, 573 (1997), which he did not request.