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2015 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 1 - OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
TITLE 7 - OF CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
CHAPTER 6 - Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses
Section 135.5.

CA Penal Code § 135.5 through (2015) Leg Sess What's This?

135.5. 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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