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When police confiscate [2] or destroy a citizen's photographs or recordings of officers' misconduct, the police's act of destroying the evidence may be prosecuted as an act of evidence tampering, if the recordings being destroyed are potential evidence in a criminal or regulatory investigation of the officers themselves. [9]
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 ...
In criminal law, police perjury, sometimes euphemistically called "testilying", [1] [2] is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony.It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result in their acquittal.
Jeremy Haney, 37, pleaded no contest Tuesday to misconduct in public office for falsifying information in a report, a Class I felony. A no contest plea means Haney accepted a guilty verdict ...
A former Morrison Police Department sergeant is facing multiple charges after being accused of falsifying inspections for vehicle identification numbers. She is also accused of failing to turn ...
It's customary for reporters, judges, lawyers and the public to take police officers at their word. The video showing Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes provoked ...
Officer Steven Bryant had also been charged with evidence tampering for "knowingly providing false information" in a police report. [20] In November 2019, the FBI arrested Goines and others as part of the organization's investigation. [21] On November 20, 2019, a federal grand jury returned indictments on federal charges in the Pecan Park raid ...
Ralph R. Erdmann (August 8, 1926 - July 23, 2010) was a contract medical examiner (forensic pathologist) who was convicted on several counts of evidence tampering and perjury for examinations he did beginning in the early 1980s throughout rural Texas. [1] [2]