Before anything...would have to find the statute/penal code that shows that what Burkett (or whoever else they worked with ) did was actually a crime as Pat Cadel's atty suggested it was. I am looking throught he Penal Code listings right now. I don't want to look through those statutes...I don't know what it goes under. An atty could probably find it in 2 minutes....
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/petoc.html
See
TITLE 4. INCHOATE OFFENSES
CHAPTER 15. PREPARATORY OFFENSES
§ 15.01. CRIMINAL ATTEMPT
§ 15.02. CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
You can click on the Chapter 15 bar (as with all other chapter listings....and it will open the Sections.
BINGO?
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/petoc.html
Texas Penal Code. Title 8
Chapter 37
--§ 37.09. TAMPERING WITH OR FABRICATING PHYSICAL
EVIDENCE.
--§ 37.10. TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD.
(PRETTY SURE AN ELECTION IS AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING)
§ 37.09. TAMPERING WITH OR FABRICATING PHYSICAL
(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record,
document, or thing with intent to impair its verity, legibility, or
availability as evidence in the investigation or official
proceeding; or
(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or
thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the
course or outcome of the investigation or official proceeding.
(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or
thing concealed is privileged or is the work product of the parties
to the investigation or official proceeding.
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§ 37.10. TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD
1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false
alteration of, a governmental record;
(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or
thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken
as a genuine governmental record;
Would be interesting to get a prosecutor's view on this.
Or any atty really.