Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
He was sentenced to 47 years in prison. Keith Foster was sentenced to the most lengthy prison term of the group, 110 years, for charges including felony murder, first-degree sexual assault, three counts of first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, tampering with a witness, and tampering with physical evidence.
In United States jurisdictions, obstruction of justice refers to a number of offenses that involve unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the justice system, especially the legal and procedural tasks of prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials.
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 ...
Brad’s former business partner, 65-year-old James Valle Cotter was also arrested at his home last month on a third-degree felony charge of tampering with evidence with intent to impair an ...
Dye was indicted by a grand jury in October on two second-degree felony counts of misuse of credit cards; a second-degree felony count of theft from a person in a protected class; and one count of ...
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
Allen County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Reed sentenced Latoya McClellan, 43, to a term of 18 months on a third-degree felony charge of tampering with evidence. Admittedly choosing his words ...