California Penal Code CHAPTER 6 - Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses

• Section 132.
  Every person who upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation whatever, authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence, as genuine or true, any book,...
• Section 132.5.
  (a) A person who is a witness to an event or occurrence that he or she knows, or reasonably should know, is a crime or who...
• Section 132.5.a.
  (a) The Legislature supports and affirms the constitutional right of every person to communicate on any subject. This section is intended to preserve the right of...
• Section 133.
  Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token, or writing, to any witness or person...
• Section 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,...
• Section 135.
  A person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, digital image, video recording owned by another, or other matter or thing, is...
• Section 135.5.
  Any person who knowingly alters, tampers with, conceals, or destroys relevant evidence in any disciplinary proceeding against a public safety officer, for the purpose of...
• Section 136.
  As used in this chapter:(1) “Malice” means an intent to vex, annoy, harm, or injure in any way another person, or to thwart or interfere in...
• Section 136.1.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who does any of the following is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by...
• Section 136.2.
  (a) (1) Upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur,...
• Section 136.3.
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 136.2 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain the address or location of...
• Section 136.5.
  Any person who has upon his person a deadly weapon with the intent to use such weapon to commit a violation of Section 136.1 is...
• Section 136.7.
  Every person imprisoned in a county jail or the state prison who has been convicted of a sexual offense, including, but not limited to, a...
• Section 137.
  (a) Every person who gives or offers, or promises to give, to any witness, person about to be called as a witness, or person about to...
• Section 138.
  (a) Every person who gives or offers or promises to give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, any bribe upon...
• Section 139.
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 71 and 136.1, any person who has been convicted of any felony offense specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
• Section 140.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 139, every person who willfully uses force or threatens to use force or violence upon the person of a witness...
• Section 141.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a person who knowingly, willfully, intentionally, and wrongfully alters, modifies, plants, places, manufactures, conceals, or moves any...

Last modified: October 22, 2018