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Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction 11.56.610(a)(1)
Tampering with Physical Evidence
, the defendant in this case, has been charged with the crime of tampering with physical evidence in the first degree.
To prove that the defendant committed this crime, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements:
(1) The defendant knowingly [destroyed], [mutilated], [altered], [suppressed], [concealed] [removed] physical evidence; and
(2) The defendant did so with the intent to impair the physical evidence’s verity or availability in an [official proceeding] [criminal investigation].
History
Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions 11.56.610(a)(1), dated Added 2022; list of updates: September 2022. Prepared by the Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association."
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
3453d88a3165d6590bbc11b32003873865b81b085c0d3da8d39ffd4a4f2a67cf
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