One wonders if any of the data might be recoverable.
>”Smashed” could mean anything.
Sure as s* doesn’t sound like they were treated as evidence.
Chain of custody, whom checked it what/when, whom (re)viewed....
Course, that’s presuming THOSE records aren’t ‘lost’ either
How ‘bout firing the whole incompetent lot, after finding/jailing the one that tampered w/ evidence??