Article 369: Falsification of Evidence by a Participant in a Civil or Administrative Case
Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Georgia governs liability for the falsification of evidence in a civil or administrative case. If you are facing investigation or court under this article, this page explains what this particular norm says: who the subject of the crime is, which cases it applies to, and what punishment is provided. Every conclusion on this page is built on the article's own text; the remaining questions — what may count as evidence in a concrete case, how the investigation and the court hearing proceed — are determined by other legislative norms.
The article is single-part: it has no separate aggravating parts, and in a single sentence it prescribes both the elements of the offence and the punishment. That is exactly why the defense case under this norm rests entirely on a precise analysis of the text, which is broken down in detail below. With a norm of this structure every word is decisive: the interpretation of the subject, the type of case and the conduct must derive directly from the text, and not from a general notion of what falsification "usually" means.