governmental record

Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett makes sure he follows through on those pesky little certificates of service, because he doesn’t want to be accused of a criminal offense, say, tampering with a governmental record.

So when a prosecutor filed a motion, and swore s/he had served Mark but hadn’t, he asked:

Are you laboring under the delusive belief that [the D.A.] won’t file charges against you?

The former director of the Austin Convention Center has been indicted by a Travis County grand jury. Don Robert Hodge was indicted on 16 counts of tampering with a governmental record.

A former roads foreman for Bastrop County Commissioner David Goertz pled guilty on Monday to tampering with a governmental record.

An Austin attorney turned himself into the Travis County Jail on three charges of tampering with a governmental record and three charges of forgery.