Supreme Court dismisses forgery charge where employee copied and briefly deleted text from a colleague's medical record entry.

The Supreme Court dismissed the charge of forgery against an employee who copied a colleague's medical record entry and briefly deleted specific behavioral descriptions before the file was saved. The defense argued that the temporary deletion rendered the act non-culpable, while the prosecution contended that the initial copying constituted the crime. The court ruled that because the altered text was not permanently saved, the essential element of creating a false permanent record was not met.