I understand doing so would be illegal of course but nevertheless if you are a guilty and you know it is it really going to be such a big leap for you to destroy your own incriminating evidence? I might of course be missing something or oversimplifying as well since my only knowledge of the court system is honestly from TV/movies.
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If that action is noticed you may be charged with criminal [spoliation of evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence#Spoliation), and the case you’re supposed to be providing evidence for may be tried under a *spoliation inference* – the assumption that the missing evidence is as damaging to your case as it could have been given the opposing party’s claims.
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