Court Opinion

ID: 9845779
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:28:08.059705+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:21.801148
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JOHNSON, Justice,
concurring and specially concurring.
I concur with part I (Burden of Proof), part III (False Statement by Juror) and part IV (Attorney’s Fees on Appeal) of the Court’s opinion. I specially concur with part II (Spoilation of Evidence).
*232In part II the Court assumes “arguendo that the tort of negligent spoliation of evidence is part of the law of Idaho.” I am not prepared to make this assumption, even for the sake of argument. I would hold that the trial court’s rejection of the instruction on spoliation of evidence requested by the Murrays should be affirmed, because the instruction did not correctly state the law of Idaho.