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The 2024 Florida Statutes

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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Amendments to 918.13

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

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 918.13

Total Results: 20

Robert Magneson v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-05-08T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: crime constituted fundamental error. Section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2018), entitled “Tampering with…in such proceeding or investigation …. § 918.13(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2018) (emphases added). … language of the applicable version of section 918.13(1)(a) required that removal of a thing be

Norge Cruz v. The State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-04-17T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: defining the offense of criminal conspiracy); § 918.13(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2017) (defining the offense

QUANAVIS LADON PENDER vs STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2023-06-09T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: tampering with evidence is codified at section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2019). The 2019 version of …such proceeding or investigation. § 918.13(1)(a), Fla. Stat. Prior to trial, Pender…ANALYSIS Under the 2019 version of section 918.13(1)(a), to commit the crime of tampering with evidence… language of the applicable version of section 918.13(1)(a) required that removal of a thing be done

CRICKET KATHLEEN TOOLE v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2019-02-19T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990))). 123 See FLA. STAT. § 918.13 (2014) (providing that it is a third-degree felony

STATE OF FLORIDA v. EMMET ZACHERY

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-07-25T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 255 So. 3d 957

Snippet: Zachery with tampering with physical evidence. See § 918.13, Fla. Stat. (2016). Mr. Zachery filed a motion

Leonard v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2016-06-10T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 192 So. 3d 1258, 2016 WL 3201073, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 8937

Snippet: and tampering with evidence contrary to section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2009), a third-degree felony

Laisha L. Landrum v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2016-06-09T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 192 So. 3d 459, 41 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 274, 2016 Fla. LEXIS 1194

Snippet: tampering with physical evidence. See § 918.13, Fla. Stat. (2004). 4 .

State v. Barnes

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2016-04-29T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 189 So. 3d 362, 2016 WL 1718867, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 6565

Snippet: of tampering with evidence pursuant to section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2014). We agree that the trial…tampering with evidence as prohibited by section 918.13, which states that “[n]o personj knowing that .…availability in such proceeding or investigation .... ” § 918.13(l)(a), Fla. Stat. ' Barnes asserts that because

James Hataway v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2015-07-22T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 171 So. 3d 156, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 11078

Snippet: tampering with evidence as provided in section 918.13(l)(a), Florida Statutes (2012). That section states

Sanchez v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-12-31T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 154 So. 3d 441, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 20935, 2014 WL 7443031

Snippet: this evidence in the police investigation. See § 918.13(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (2012); Chapman v. State, 36

Sanchez v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-12-30T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: this evidence in the police investigation. See § 918.13(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2012); Chapman v. State, 36

Anthony Costanzo v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-12-03T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 152 So. 3d 737, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 19604, 2014 WL 6775251

Snippet: State failed to establish a violation of section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2013). The evidence tampering…the evidence tampering conviction. Section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2013), provides in pertinent… demonstrate the intent necessary for a section 918.13 violation; merely discarding evidence from one’…necessary intent to amount to a violation of section 918.13, just like “flushing it down a toilet”). In

Crew v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-08-29T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 146 So. 3d 101, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 13451, 2014 WL 4249756

Snippet: with physical evidence in violation of section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2011). The jury found Appellant

Antonio R. Hernandez v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-07-30T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 141 So. 3d 1247

Snippet: instead is under the tampering statute, section 918.13, Florida Statutes”). Because Hernandez was

In re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report No. 2012-05

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2013-12-05T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 131 So. 3d 755, 2013 WL 6305187

Snippet: TAMPERING WITH OR FABRICATING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 918.13 Fla. Stat. w To prove the crime of [Tampering with

Jones v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2013-08-21T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 120 So. 3d 135, 2013 WL 4436557, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 13045

Snippet: in the trial proceeding of investigation.” See § 918.13, Fla. Stat. (2011). The jury acquitted Jones of

Sharpe v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2013-05-22T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 115 So. 3d 1021, 2013 WL 2232316, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 8219

Snippet: for tampering with physical evidence is section 918.13, Florida Statutes; the maximum sentence allowable

State v. Conley

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2012-07-18T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 98 So. 3d 108, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 11683, 2012 WL 2914033

Snippet: 2010); evidence tampering, in violation of section 918.13(l)(a), Florida Statutes (2010); possession of marijuana

Williams v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2012-05-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 87 So. 3d 826, 2012 WL 1698349, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 7826

Snippet: convicted Dwayne Williams of tampering with evidence, § 918.13(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (2007). In this appeal he raises

Mingo v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2012-05-04T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 86 So. 3d 1256, 2012 WL 1555096, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 7003

Snippet: on a charge of tampering with evidence, section 918.13, Florida Statutes (2010). We find no trial error