State v. Peteja

GUTIERREZ, Judge.

Jason Matthew Peteja was convicted of felony destruction of evidence after he swallowed a plastic bag during a police investigation involving illegal drugs. Peteja contends that the jury instructions did not delineate all the elements needed to constitute that offense as a felony, but only sufficed to render that crime a misdemeanor. We affirm.

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY

On May 19, 2001, Peteja threw a piece of paper from a parked car’s passenger window as a patrol ear drove by. The officer stopped and asked Peteja for identification after being told that the car’s…