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Tampering with Evidence

By Baker Associates

The Tennessee Supreme Court has included a case on its upcoming docket in which it will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to convict a defendant of tampering with evidence where there is no eyewitness to the actual act of alleged tampering. The defendant was convicted for tampering after he allegedly flushed cocaine down the toilet when police officers entered his home. No one apparently ever saw the defendant flush the cocaine down the toilet, but the defendant got up and ran from the room when he saw police and then the police heard the toilet flush. Officers testified that when they apprehended the defendant just after they heard the toilet flush, he was not undressed at all and there was water on the toilet seat, leading them to think something had been flushed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).