Preparing False Evidence

California Penal Code §134

California Penal Code §134 makes it illegal to prepare falsified documents with the intent to use it for a fraudulent purpose during any legal proceeding. The best course of action is to always provide truthful, unaltered documents when providing official documentation to any public officer.

under California Penal Code §132 offering such falsified documents is a separate felony.

§134 Every person guilty of preparing any false or ante-dated book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced for any fraudulent or deceitful purpose, as genuine or true, upon any trial, proceeding, or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, is guilty of felony.

For example:

• Changing the date or names on a signed contract
• Digitally altering receipts to show something different from the original or falsifying hospital records and providing them to court as evidence.

California Penal Code §134 is a felony.

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