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PEOPLE v. FIELDS

Docket No. 3572.

105 Cal.App.3d 341 (1980)

164 Cal. Rptr. 336

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JACK ELMO FIELDS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

April 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Ezra Hendon, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Richard Shapiro, Michael Zola and Gayle Guynup, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Joel E. Carey and Arthur G. Scotland, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

FRANSON, Acting P.J.

This appeal tests the scope and applicability of Penal Code section 1351 which prohibits the knowing destruction or concealment of any "book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, ... about to be produced in evidence upon any trial, inquiry, or investigation whatever, authorized by law...

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