All articles tagged with #evidence destruction
Blake Lively accuses Justin Baldoni and his team of hiding evidence and orchestrating a smear campaign against her, with allegations of deleted communications and improper conduct during discovery, as the legal battle intensifies ahead of a 2026 trial.
Lalit Jha, the alleged mastermind behind the Parliament security breach, reportedly burned the mobile phones of four accomplices in an attempt to destroy evidence, according to Delhi Police sources. Jha, who surrendered to the police, claimed to have filmed the incident of smoke canisters being popped outside Parliament, uploaded the clip to Instagram, and sent it to a Kolkata-based NGO for media coverage before fleeing. The police are verifying Jha's claim of burning the phones. Meanwhile, the four individuals involved in the smoke scare have been sent to police custody, and investigations are ongoing.
YouTuber Trevor D. Jacob has been sentenced to six months in prison for obstructing an investigation into a plane crash he intentionally orchestrated in Southern California. Jacob, who had mounted cameras on the plane and equipped himself with a parachute, video camera, and selfie stick, planned to eject himself from the plane during the flight and record himself parachuting to the ground as it crashed, all in an effort to promote a wallet in one of his videos. He removed the wreckage from the crash site and destroyed it, hindering the investigation. Jacob pleaded guilty to destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation and will surrender to authorities by January 29.
A federal magistrate has recommended default judgment in a class-action lawsuit against the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia, citing the intentional destruction of evidence by state corrections officials. The magistrate found that paper records of grievances and investigations were intentionally destroyed, and called the officials' behavior "disturbing" and "arrogant." Default judgment, if granted, would leave only the financial award to be determined. The judge's scathing order highlights the defendants' disregard for discovery rules and their failure to preserve evidence, leading to the loss of critical information concerning the well-being of individuals in custody.
Former President Donald Trump's comments on destroying evidence have been unearthed as he faces a new obstruction charge. CNN's KFile senior editor Andrew Kaczynski reports on Trump's previous railing against those who destroy evidence.