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Product Tampering & Related Charges

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What should I know about F.S. 501.001 before hiring a Consumer Product Tampering Attorney?

proves the person “with reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of death or bodily injury, tampers with, or conspires or attempts to tamper with, any consumer product, or the labeling of, or container for such product.”

In other words, a person can face up to thirty years in prison if they tamper with a consumer product so that he places another, or others, at risk of injury or death.

The crime of consumer product tampering takes other forms:

1. tampering with a consumer product or the product’s label with the intent to cause serious injury to a business,
2. falsely communicating a consumer product has been tampered with;
3. and threatening to tamper with a consumer product.

What example defense would an experienced West Palm Beach Product Tampering Attorney utilize?

Defenses for Product Tampering will vary, not only with the particular facts of each case but also with the type of tampering alleged by the State.

For example, tampering with a product or a product’s label with the intent to injure a business requires the State to prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the accused consciously intended to cause that damage.

Hence, the accused may win acquittal by showing that the actions attributed to him were a matter of, say, mere criminal mischief rather than with an intent to cause damage to the business.

What are the penalties?

Tampering with a consumer product that puts a person at risk of injury or death is a first-degree felony that subjects the person convicted to a range of punishments from a term of probation up to 30 years in prison.

Tampering with a consumer product or the product’s label with the intent to cause serious injury to a business is a second-degree felony and subjects the person convicted to a range of punishments from a term of probation up to 15 years in prison.

Knowingly communicating false information that a consumer product has been tampered with is also a felony of second-degree, punishable by a term of probation of up to 15 years in prison.

Threatening to tamper with a consumer product such that it could injure or kill someone is a third-degree felony, punishable by a term of probation of up to 5 years in prison.

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