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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]
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.
Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to the Enron scandal, and closed a legal loophole on who could be charged with evidence tampering by defining the new crime very broadly.
Bryan Kohberger's Fight Against Death Penalty Gets Day In Court; Expert Skeptical Of Defense's Arguments ... with involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence. She was convicted on this ...
Tampering with evidence carries a punishment up to 10 years in prison. The motion to dismiss the murder charge filed by the Wichita County District Attorney's Office includes an explanation: State ...
Sep. 13—LIMA — A Lima woman was sentenced to three years of probation Friday in the Allen County Common Pleas Court for tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. Allesha Julien, 28, was ...
Witness tampering is the act of attempting to improperly influence, alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings. Witness tampering and reprisals against witnesses in organized crime cases have been a difficulty faced by prosecutors; witness protection programs were one response to this problem.
(Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged "Rust" movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed with tampering with evidence in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of the film's cinematographer, Halyna ...