Code of Virginia - Title 18.2 Crimes And Offenses Generally - Chapter 10 Crimes Against The Administration Of Justice

18.2-434 What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty
If any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully swears falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing, ...

18.2-435 Giving conflicting testimony on separate occasions as to same matter; indictment; sufficiency of ev...
It shall likewise constitute perjury for any person, with the intent to testify falsely, to knowingly give testimony under oath as to any material matter ...

18.2-436 Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence
If any person procure or induce another to commit perjury or to give false testimony under oath in violation of any provision of this article, ...

18.2-437 Immunity of witnesses
No witness called by the attorney for the Commonwealth, or by the court, and required to give evidence for the prosecution in a proceeding under ...

18.2-438 Bribes to officers or candidates for office
If any person corruptly give, offer or promise to any executive, legislative or judicial officer, sheriff or police officer, or to any candidate for such ...

18.2-439 Acceptance of bribe by officer or candidate
If any executive, legislative or judicial officer, sheriff or police officer, or any candidate for such office, accept in this Commonwealth, or if, being resident ...

18.2-440 Bribes to officers to prevent service of process
If any officer authorized to serve legal process receive any money or other thing of value for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining ...

18.2-441 Giving bribes to, or receiving bribes by, commissioners, jurors, etc
If any person give, offer or promise to give any money or other thing of value to a commissioner appointed by a court, auditor, arbitrator, ...

18.2-441.1 Bribery of witnesses
If any person give, offer, or promise to give any money or other thing of value to anyone with intent to prevent such person from ...

18.2-442 Bribery of participants in games, contests or sports
Whoever gives, promises or offers any valuable thing to any professional or amateur participant or prospective participant in any game, contest or sport, with intent ...

18.2-443 Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers
A professional or amateur participant or prospective participant in any game, contest or sport or a manager, coach or trainer of any team or individual ...

18.2-444 Corruptly influencing, or being influenced as, agents, etc
(1) Any person who gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant any gift or gratuity whatever, without the knowledge and consent of ...

18.2-444.1 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...

18.2-444.2 Giving or accepting a fee or gift for purposes of influencing decisions of financial institutio...
A. No officer, director, or employee of a financial institution or subsidiary, affiliate or holding company thereof, or stockholder owning ten percent or more of ...

18.2-445 Immunity of witnesses
No witness called by the court or attorney for the Commonwealth and giving evidence for the prosecution, either before the grand jury or the court ...

18.2-446 Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this article shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section except where the context ...

18.2-447 When person guilty of bribery
A person shall be guilty of bribery under the provisions of this article: (1) If he offers, confers or agrees to confer upon another (a) ...

18.2-448 Certain matters not to constitute defenses
It shall be no defense to any prosecution under § 18.2-447 that a person whom the actor sought to influence was not qualified to act ...

18.2-449 Punishment
Any person found guilty of bribery under the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony, and if such person be ...

18.2-450 Immunity of witnesses
No witness called by the court or attorney for the Commonwealth and giving evidence for the prosecution, either before the grand jury or the court ...

18.2-451 Definitions; application and construction of article
(a) "Barratry" is the offense of stirring up litigation. (b) A "barrator" is an individual, partnership, association or corporation who or which stirs up litigation. ...

18.2-452 Barratry unlawful
Any person, if an individual, who shall engage in barratry shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor; and if a corporation, may be fined ...

18.2-453 Aiders and abettors
A person who aids and abets a barrator by giving money or rendering services to or for the use or benefit of the barrator for ...

18.2-454 Enjoining barratry
Suits to enjoin barratry may be brought by the Attorney General or the attorney for the Commonwealth in the appropriate circuit court. (Code 1950, § ...

18.2-455 Unprofessional conduct; revocation of license
Conduct that is made illegal by this article on the part of an attorney at law or any person holding license from the Commonwealth to ...

18.2-456 Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
The courts and judges may issue attachments for contempt, and punish them summarily, only in the cases following: (1) Misbehavior in the presence of the ...

18.2-457 Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled
No court shall, without a jury, for any such contempt as is mentioned in the first class embraced in § 18.2-456, impose a fine exceeding ...

18.2-458 Power of judge of district court to punish for contempt
A judge of a district court shall have the same power and jurisdiction as a judge of a circuit court to punish summarily for contempt, ...

18.2-459 Appeal from sentence of such judge
Any person sentenced to pay a fine, or to confinement, under § 18.2-458, may appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the county or city ...

18.2-460 Obstructing justice; penalty
A. If any person without just cause knowingly obstructs a judge, magistrate, justice, juror, attorney for the Commonwealth, witness or any law-enforcement officer in the ...

18.2-460.1 Unlawful disclosure of existence of order authorizing wire or oral interception of communicatio...
Except as provided in Chapter 6 (§ 19.2-61 et seq.) of Title 19.2, it shall be unlawful for any person who, by virtue of his ...

18.2-461 Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
It shall be unlawful for any person (i) to knowingly give a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official ...

18.2-462 Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties
A. Except as provided in subsection B, if any person knowing of the commission of an offense takes any money or reward, or an engagement ...

18.2-462.1 Use of police radio during commission of crime
Any person who has in his possession or who uses a device capable of receiving a police radio signal, message, or transmission, while in the ...

18.2-463 Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office
If any person on being required by any sheriff or other officer refuse or neglect to assist him: (1) in the execution of his office ...

18.2-464 Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
If any person, being required by a conservator of the peace on view of a breach of the peace or other offense to bring before ...

18.2-465 Officer summoning juror to act impartially
If any sheriff or other officer corruptly, or through favor or ill-will, summon a juror, with intent that such juror shall find a verdict for ...

18.2-465.1 Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel
Any person who is summoned to serve on jury duty or any person, except a defendant in a criminal case, who is summoned or subpoenaed ...

18.2-466 Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned
If any person procure or attempt to procure a juror to be summoned, with intent that such juror shall find a verdict for or against ...

18.2-467 Fraud in drawing jurors, etc
If any person be guilty of any fraud, either by tampering with the jury box prior to a draft, or in drawing a juror, or ...

18.2-468 Making sound recordings of jury deliberations
If any person shall install or cause to be installed or use or cause to be used any microphone or device designed for recording or ...

18.2-469 Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
If any officer willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any lawful process requiring him to apprehend or confine a person convicted of, or charged with, ...

18.2-470 Extortion by officer
If any officer, for performing an official duty for which a fee or compensation is allowed or provided by law, knowingly demand and receive a ...

18.2-471 Fraudulent issue of fee bills
If any person authorized by law to charge fees for services performed by him and issue bills therefor fraudulently issue a fee bill for a ...

18.2-471.1 Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty.
Any clerk of court or other public official who willfully violates an order entered pursuant to § 19.2-270.4:1 is guilty of a Class 6 felony. ...

18.2-472 False entries or destruction of records by officers
If a clerk of any court or other public officer fraudulently make a false entry, or erase, alter, secrete or destroy any record, including a ...

18.2-472.1 Providing false information or failing to provide registration information; penalty; prima facie ev...
A. Any person subject to Chapter 9 (§ 9.1-900 et seq.) of Title 9.1, other than a person convicted of a sexually violent offense or ...

18.2-473 Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child
When a person is lawfully detained as a prisoner in any jail or prison or held in custody, or when a child is placed in ...

18.2-473.1 Communication with prisoners; penalty
It shall be unlawful for any person outside of any state or local correctional facility, other than the jailers or custodial officers in charge of ...

18.2-474 Delivery of articles to prisoners
No person shall willfully in any manner deliver, or attempt to deliver, to any prisoner confined under authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or of ...

18.2-474.1 Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 18.2-474, any person who shall willfully in any manner deliver, attempt to deliver, or conspire with another to deliver to ...

18.2-475 Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing prisoner convicted of or charged with felony to escape; penalt...
If any sheriff, jailer or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by any such sheriff, jailer or other officer, voluntarily ...

18.2-476 Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting prisoner not convicted of or charged with fel...
If any sheriff, jailer or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by such sheriff, jailer or other officer, willfully and ...

18.2-477 Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
If any person confined in jail or in custody after conviction of a criminal offense shall escape by force or violence, other than by setting ...

18.2-477.1 Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other residential care facility ...

18.2-477.2 Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention hom...
It shall be unlawful for a person detained in a secure juvenile facility or detention home to commit any of the offenses enumerated in § ...

18.2-478 Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail and not tried or sentenced on a criminal offense escapes from jail by force or violence, other than ...

18.2-479 Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail
A. Except as provided in subsection B, any person lawfully confined in jail or lawfully in the custody of any court, officer of the court, ...

18.2-479.1 Resisting lawful arrest; penalty
A. Any person who intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully arresting him, with or without a warrant, is guilty of ...

18.2-480 Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail escape, or attempt to escape therefrom, by setting fire thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 ...

18.2-480.1 Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases
In any prosecution for, or preliminary hearing for, the offense of escape under this article or Title 53.1, the records maintained by the Department of ...