Originally Posted by
Fissile
You don't have a grasp of what the 5th amendment really means. Yup, destroying evidence is a crime.
What is "evidence" in your law book, anything and everything that somebody on the Internet thinks it is? Is anybody allowed to delete any files on their computer, cell phone, their personal diary? How about throwing out the trash, is that allowed? After all there might be some alleged evidence of a crime in there somewhere that somebody might like to see at some future date.