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2005 SESSION

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HB 2288 Criminal investigation; obstruction of justice, penalty.

Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Impeding a criminal investigation; penalty.  Provides that any person with actual knowledge of the commission of a felony under Chapter 4 of Title 18.2 (Crimes Against the Person) by another, who willfully conceals, alters, dismembers, or destroys any item of physical evidence with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, or hinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person regarding such offense, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. This provision does not apply to the victim or the spouse, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, or sibling of the offender.


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