For two hours on Friday, lawyers in a packed Marin County courtroom debated whether a California Highway Patrol investigator had mishandled crucial evidence after an April 2025 car crash that left four teens dead and two others wounded.
Defense attorney Charles Dresow argued that CHP Sgt. Kylle Rose had removed important evidence when cleaning off the face of the speedometer of the 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan in an attempt to determine the speed the vehicle was traveling when it crashed into a tree in a remote section of Marin County last year.
“The destruction of evidence and cleaning of dial that occurred can never be put back,” he told Superior Court Judge James Chou…