Intimidating a witness

  1. Law
  2. Arkansas Code
  3. Criminal Offenses
  4. Offenses Against the Administration of Government
  5. Offenses Relating to Judicial and Other Official Proceedings
  6. General Provisions
  7. Intimidating a witness

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  1. (a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of:

    1. (1) Influencing the testimony of that person;

    2. (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or

    3. (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.

  2. (b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony.


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