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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.
Tampering can refer to many forms of sabotage but the term is often used to mean intentional modification of products in a way that would make them harmful to the consumer. This threat has prompted manufacturers to make products that are either difficult to modify or at least difficult to modify without warning the consumer that the product has ...
A magistrate originally set Dale Warner’s bond at $20 million — $15 million on the murder charge and $5 million on the tampering with evidence charge. Lenawee County District Judge Laura J ...
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.
Following a recent and highly publicized hearing, renewed attention is on witness tampering and the possibility that it was committed by Trump. During a recent hearing, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz ...
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.
Arnoldo Bazan pleaded guilty March 22, 2011, to a charge of conspiracy to tamper with a consumer product. He hatched a scheme to put poison in salsa served to customers at the restaurant’s ...