CGS § 53a-155. Tampering with or fabricating physical evidence: Class D felony.

Cited. 214 C. 540; 236 C. 514; 237 C. 339. Section applies, no matter what stage the police have actually reached in their investigation, provided defendant believes it is probable that an official proceeding will arise; omission of the term “investigation” from section excludes situations in which defendant believes only an investigation, but not an official proceeding, is likely to take place. 314 C. 354.

Cited. 1 CA 540; 6 CA 394; 25 CA 624. Section does not require a temporal proximity between the alleged act and the subsequent official proceeding; element re pending or about to be instituted official proceeding was satisfied when defendant reasonably could have contemplated that an official proceeding was likely to arise. 147 CA 53. Subsec. (a)(1): The word “conceal” is not defined in the section or elsewhere in the Penal Code, but a commonly understood meaning is to prevent disclosure or recognition of something and a jury could reasonably find that the defendant's placing of his vehicle in a private driveway with several other vehicles after striking the victim with his vehicle was an act of concealment. 227 CA 636.