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[–] cantaloupe6 ago (edited ago)
spoliation of evidence
The spoliation inference is a ...negative evidentiary inference... that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable civil or criminal proceeding: the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.
spoliation can be taken as (contributing) evidence of guilt.
Also tampering with evidence can have a heavy penalty.
If the law is actually applied remains to be seen
[–] ardvarcus ago
We don't need to presume they are guilty, we bloody well know they are guilty -- but is anything ever going to be done to them to punish them for their guilt?