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2011 California Code
Penal Code
PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
CHAPTER 6. Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses
Section 135.5


CA Penal Code § 135.5 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Any person who knowingly alters, tampers with, conceals, or destroys relevant evidence in any disciplinary proceeding against a public safety officer, for the purpose of harming that public safety officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 759, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.)

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