Karimah and Sabrina Elkins are charged with tampering with evidence by throwing a firearm into a pond.

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Both sides accused one another of tampering with evidence and intimidating the witnesses into testifying one way or the other.

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He said he tells trainees turning off the phones can help save their own sanity, but says some agencies could view the act as tampering with evidence.

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So, how can aborting a pregnancy ever be tampering with evidence when a pregnancy or lack thereof is never evidence in the first place when prosecuting a case for rape or incest?

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Ravi was found guilty in March of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation (a hate crime), and tampering with evidence, and could have faced up to 10 years in prison.

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Officials say that the state government has also transferred the Lakhimpur district police chief, while the cook at the police station where the incident happened has been arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence.

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That was before the mom and De'Marquise Elkins' older sister, Sabrina Elkins, were charged with evidence tampering.

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With reversible data-hiding, however, photographic evidence could be watermarked and secured from tampering the moment the shutter is pressed.

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