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Ind. Code § 34-47-3-3

Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witnesses

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Sahara Mart, Incorporated v. Indiana Department of State Revenue (2018)

Most recently applied in Sahara Mart, Incorporated v. Indiana Department of State Revenue (October 2018)

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.43.

Sec. 3. A person:

(1) who:

(A) offers, gives, or promises any reward to;

(B) threatens to assault or injure;

(C) assaults or beats; or

(D) in any other manner influences, intimidates, or attempts to influence;

any witness to give or abstain from giving testimony in any case, or to abstain from attending as a witness in any case;

(2) who does any act to put a witness in fear, on account of any testimony that the witness may have given; or

(3) who, on account of any testimony, injures or threatens to injure a witness;

is guilty of an indirect contempt of the court in which such witness may be called to testify, if the acts are done elsewhere, out of the presence of the court.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.