Court officials turned over the evidence to the Manhattan district attorney's office.
However, the company turned over the evidence to the police on June 20.
Citing the new law, the prosecutors in Mr. Knellinger's case withdrew their proposal to turn over the evidence against him.
He said the local police would turn over the evidence to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for safekeeping.
The police are expected to turn over the evidence gathered in an investigation to the Clark County district attorney, Stewart Bell, this week.
Prosecutors declared they had handed over the evidence in November, but only realised on Friday that they had not in fact done so.
But by dismissing him and turning over the evidence of the document destruction, Andersen had been hoping to sidestep any criminal charges.
The prosecution will review the case and conduct its own investigation, if deemed necessary, before turning over the evidence to a grand jury.
Paris Match was unable to turn over the evidence to authorities because they were only shown it and do not have a copy to pass on, he said.
Although prosecutors said Thursday that the evidence was potentially exculpatory, they still showed confidence in their case, and indicated that they were turning over the evidence mostly out of due diligence.
Brought up on detective novels and their screen versions, we turn armchair detectives, picking over the "evidence", titillated by prosaic clues such as pizza boxes and the implied menace of a missing sock.
