(1) A person commits bribing a witness or victim if he or she offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness, or a victim, or a person he or she believes is to be called to testify as a witness or victim in any official proceeding, or upon a member of the witness’ family, a member of the victim’s family, a person in close relationship to the witness or victim, or a person residing in the same household as the witness or victim with intent to:
(a) Influence the witness or victim to testify falsely or unlawfully withhold
any testimony; or
(b) Induce the witness or victim to avoid legal process summoning him to
testify; or
(c) Induce the witness or victim to absent himself or herself from an official
proceeding.
(2) Bribing a witness or victim is a class 4 felony.
L. 84: Entire part added, p. 501, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2004: IP(1) and (1)(c) amended, p. 435, § 1, effective July 1.
This section is similar to former § 18-8-602 as it existed prior to 1984.
