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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 918
CONDUCT OF TRIAL
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F.S. 918.13
918.13 Tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
(1) It is unlawful for any person, knowing that a criminal trial, proceeding, or investigation by a duly constituted prosecuting authority, law enforcement agency, grand jury, or legislative committee of this state is pending or is about to be instituted, to:
(a) Alter, destroy, conceal, or remove any record, document, or other item with the purpose to impair its verity or availability in such proceeding or investigation; or
(b) Make, present, or use any record, document, or other item, knowing it to be false.
(2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person who violates subsection (1) commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(b) A person who violates subsection (1) relating to a criminal trial, proceeding, or investigation that relates to a capital felony commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.s. 2, ch. 72-315; s. 1, ch. 2022-84.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 918.13
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S918.13 - EVIDENCE-DESTROYING - RENUMBERED SEE REC # 8703 - F: T
S918.13 1a - EVIDENCE-DESTROYING - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 9577 - F: T
S918.13 1a - OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE - TAMPER W EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDING - F: T
S918.13 1a - OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE - TAMPER EVIDENCE IN CAPITAL FEL CRIM PROCEEDING - F: S
S918.13 1b - OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 9579 - F: T
S918.13 1b - FRAUD - FABRICATE/USE FALSE EVIDENCE IN CRIM ROCEEDING - F: T
S918.13 1b - FRAUD - FABRICATE/USE FALSE EVIDENCE CAP FEL CRIM PROC - F: S



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