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In 1982, in response to concerns that the obstruction law did not provide adequate protection to crime victims and other witnesses, Congress broadened the law against witness tampering and criminalized retaliation against witnesses, as part of the Victim and Witness Protection Act.
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]
Articles relating to tampering with evidence, 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.
He's also accused of tampering with evidence because the disappearance of drug evidence impeded prosecution of those cases, a criminal complaint said. The charges are only allegations. Zbikowski ...
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.
Dale Warner's lead attorney, Mary Chartier of Okemos, told Olsaver that she and Lenawee County Prosecutor Jackie Wyse plan to meet Tuesday, Sept. 10, to review evidence in the case that has not ...
This time, a family turned over video evidence that showed a hospice aide neglecting a woman at risk of aspirating, or inhaling her food into her lungs, according to an inspection report. Doctor’s orders called for the aide to feed the woman just one tiny bite of pureed food at a time, less than a teaspoon in size, followed by a sip of liquid.
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