Tampering with a witness: Class C felony
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch (2016)
Most recently applied in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch (March 2016)
(1969, P.A. 828, S. 153; P.A. 03-259, S. 52.) History: P.A. 03-259 amended Subsec
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person is guilty of tampering with a witness if, believing that an official proceeding is pending or about to be instituted, he induces or attempts to induce a witness to testify falsely, withhold testimony, elude legal process summoning him to testify or absent himself from any official proceeding.
(b) Tampering with a witness is a class C felony.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.