California · Penal Code

PEN §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, paper, document, record, or other ins

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

A person commits felony by offering forged, fraudulently altered, or ante-dated documents as genuine evidence in any authorized legal proceeding, knowing they are false.

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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, paper, document, record, or other instrument in writing, knowing the same to have been forged or fraudulently altered or ante-dated, is guilty of felony.

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