Offenses of interfering with a person or an object that a court will rely on, including witness tampering, jury tampering, embracery, impersonating a juror, tampering with evidence and disposing of a body to defeat an inquest. An offense belongs here when the wrong is interference with a source of proof. It excludes false statements. Entries placed here are Witness Tampering, Jury Tampering, Embracery, Personation of a Juror, Evidence Tampering and Disposal of a Corpse with Intent to Obstruct or Prevent a Coroner's Inquest.
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Jury Tampering (Wikipedia)
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Jury tampering is the crime of unduly attempting to influence the composition or decisions of a jury during the course of a trial.
Tampering with evidence (Wikipedia)
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Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority.
Personation of a juror, Wikipedia
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Personation of a juror is a common law offence in England and Wales, where a person impersonates a juror in a civil or criminal trial.
Disposal of a corpse with intent to obstruct or prevent a coroner's inquest, Wikipedia
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Disposal of a corpse with intent to obstruct or prevent a coroner's inquest is an offence under the common law of England and Wales.
Cornell LII Wex: Witness Tampering
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The act of obstructing justice by improperly interacting with a witness before or after trial.
Embracery (Wikipedia)
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In common law, embracery is the attempt to influence a juror corruptly to give their verdict in favour of one side or the other in a trial.
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