Tampering with physical evidence
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Goff v. Harold Ives Trucking Co., Inc. (2000)
Most recently applied in 2025 Ark. App. 186 - Zereak Oliver v. State of Arkansas (March 2025)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2611; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2611.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if he or she alters, destroys, suppresses, removes, or conceals any record, document, or thing with the purpose of impairing its verity, legibility, or availability in any official proceeding or investigation.
(2) Tampering with physical evidence is a Class D felony if the person impairs or obstructs the prosecution or defense of a felony.
(3) Otherwise, tampering with physical evidence is a Class B misdemeanor.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.