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2022 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.
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CA Penal Code § 135 (2022)
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135. A person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, digital image, video recording owned by another, or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon a trial, inquiry, or investigation, authorized by law, willfully destroys, erases, or conceals the same, with the intent to prevent it or its content from being produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 463, Sec. 1. (AB 256) Effective January 1, 2016.)
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