(1) A person commits the crime of tampering with a witness if he: (a) Intentionally or knowingly attempts to induce a witness or a person he reasonably believes will be called as a witness in any official proceeding to:(i) Testify falsely or unlawfully withhold testimony;(ii) Absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned; or(b) Solicits, encourages, threatens, harasses or intimidates or attempts to solicit, encourage, threaten, harass or intimidate a witness in an effort to prevent or dissuade the witness from testifying or to provide a false version of events exonerating or incriminating another person of commission of a crime.(2) Tampering with a witness is a Class 2 felony.(3) It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section if the actual completion of the threat, harassment or intimidation was prevented from occurring. Laws, 2006, ch. 387, § 8, eff. 7/1/2006.Amended by Laws, 2017, ch. 382, HB 1367, 5, eff. 7/1/2017.
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