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Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice. Obstruction is a broad crime that may include acts such as perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, and many others.
Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...
Obstruction of court orders § 1510. Obstruction of criminal investigations § 1511. Obstruction of State or local law enforcement § 1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant § 1513. Retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant § 1514. Civil action to restrain harassment of a victim or witness § 1514A.
Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority. [1] It is a criminal offense in many jurisdictions. [2]
A law enforcement agency contacted Leawood police on Thursday to pass on a tip about possible intentional food contamination that was believed to be taking place at a Leawood restaurant, Capt ...
A Texas man was arrested Monday in connection to the disappearance of his business partner’s wife, a mother of four who was reported missing earlier this month.
In California, there is a carefully prescribed procedure governing such request, and making disclosure without an order is a crime. The statutory scheme was developed, in part, because law enforcement departments had developed a practice of purging their files concerning misconduct claims made against their officers. [20]
Police in Ohio are searching for suspects after a 19-year-old woman was stripped of her clothes and attacked last month.. The Akron Police Department in Ohio told PEOPLE in a statement that ...