Penal Code § 135

CHAPTER 6. Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 135Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 463, Sec. 1. (AB 256) Effective January 1, 2016.

A person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, digital image, video recording owned by another, or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon a trial, inquiry, or investigation, authorized by law, willfully destroys, erases, or conceals the same, with the intent to prevent it or its content from being produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor.