Criminal Tampering Law and Legal Definition
Criminal tampering is generally defined as when a person, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, tampers with property of another person with intent to cause substantial inconvenience to such person or to a third person. For example, such tampering may involve connection with property of a gas, electric, sewer, steam or water-works corporation, telephone or telegraph corporation, common carrier, or public utility operated by a municipality or district. Precise definitions vary by state law.
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Related Legal Terms
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences [ACJS]
- Administration of Criminal Justice
- American Board of Criminalistics
- Armed Career Criminal
- Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)
- Burglary and Criminal Trespass
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- Central Criminal Court Act
- Central Repository [Criminal Law]
- Collateral Consequences of Criminal Charges
