Title: What Is Destruction of Evidence? (with pictures)
Headings: What Is Destruction of Evidence? (with pictures)
What Is Destruction of Evidence? (with pictures)
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Content: There may be legal penalties for destruction of evidence. Document shredding to destroy information important to a legal case, or to prevent detection of a crime, is one form of evidence destruction. Evidence can be destroyed in a variety of situations. Sometimes a party with custody of the evidence behaves negligently and loses it or exposes it to risks. For example, a medical examiner may fail to collect DNA evidence properly, making it impossible to test later. Likewise, a police officer might fail to observe chain of evidence procedures by leaving evidence unsecured on the seat of his vehicle, leading to loss of the evidence through theft. Crime scene technicians must follow strict evidence collection procedures to prevent its destruction or contamination. In other cases, destruction of evidence may appear willful. Shredding documents is an example, as are attempts to deliberately ruin evidence like burning it or hiding it. This wanton destruction of evidence tends to be regarded with extreme suspicion.