MT · jury_instructions
Mont. Crim. Jury Instr. 7-105 (2022)
Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence
A person commits the offense of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is [pending] [about to be instituted], the person:
[(alters) (destroys) (conceals) (removes) any record, document or thing with purpose to impair its verity or availability in such proceeding or investigation];
OR
[(makes) (presents) (uses) any (record) (document) (thing) knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead any person who is or may be engaged in such proceeding or investigation].
Provenance
- Source
- courts.mt.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2009
- Content hash
0b7bdd044daeba0867da9ec49d01a5f12e24b3ad5be9f5f130df426c7476f149
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.