Intimidating a witness
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 91 Ark. App. 267 - Reed v. State (2005)
Most recently applied in 368 F. App'x 696 - United States v. Michael Cooper (March 2010)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609; Acts 2019, No. 1017, § 2.
(1) 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: Influencing the testimony of that person;
(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or
(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.
(4) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.