Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witnesses
Sec. 3. A person:
(1) who:
(A) offers, gives, or promises any reward to;
(B) threatens to assault or injure;
(C) assaults or beats; or
(D) in any other manner influences, intimidates, or attempts
to influence;
any witness to give or abstain from giving testimony in any
case, or to abstain from attending as a witness in any case;
(2) who does any act to put a witness in fear, on account of any
testimony that the witness may have given; or
(3) who, on account of any testimony, injures or threatens to
injure a witness;
is guilty of an indirect contempt of the court in which such witness
may be called to testify, if the acts are done elsewhere, out of the
presence of the court.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.43.
Last modified: May 24, 2006