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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-115

Tampering with a witness

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Trevioun Lamont Cornelius Briggs v. State of Mississippi (2017)

Most recently applied in Trevioun Lamont Cornelius Briggs v. State of Mississippi (July 2017)

Laws, 2006, ch. 387, § 8; Laws, 2017, ch. 382, § 5, eff from and after July 1, 2017.

(1) A person commits the crime of tampering with a witness if he: 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: Testify falsely or unlawfully withhold testimony;

(2) Absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned; or

(3) 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.

(4) Tampering with a witness is a Class 2 felony.

(5) 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.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.