Just five days before the trial will take place between Apple and Samsung over a collection of patents and possible device design infringements, Samsung has been accused of failing to avoid auto-deleting email evidence. In this case it appears that Apple is seeking evidence which would have been in Samsung’s email archives if Samsung had not had a “rolling basis” for deleting old documents. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal agreed with Apple’s request that jurors should be informed that they can draw “adverse inference” from Samsung’s failure to avoid deleting the files in question. Read the full story at Slashgear.