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Wis. Stat. § 943.30

Threats to injure or accuse of crime

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case State v. Davison (2003)

Most recently applied in Kaye v. D'Amato (December 2009)

1977 c. 173; 1979 c. 110; 1981 c. 118; 1997 a. 231; 2001 a. 109

How often courts cite this section

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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.

(1) Whoever, either verbally or by any written or printed communication, maliciously threatens to accuse or accuses another of any crime or offense, or threatens or commits any injury to the person, property, business, profession, calling or trade, or the profits and income of any business, profession, calling or trade of another, with intent thereby to extort money or any pecuniary advantage whatever, or with intent to compel the person so threatened to do any act against the person’s will or omit to do any lawful act, is guilty of a Class H felony.

(2) Whoever violates sub.

(1) by obstructing, delaying or affecting commerce or business or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce or business is guilty of a Class H felony.

(3) Whoever violates sub.

(1) by attempting to influence any petit or grand juror, in the performance of his or her functions as such, is guilty of a Class H felony.

(4) Whoever violates sub.

(1) by attempting to influence the official action of any public officer is guilty of a Class H felony.

(5)

(a) In this subsection, “patient health care records” has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (4).

(b) Whoever, orally or by any written or printed communication, maliciously uses, or threatens to use, the patient health care records of another person, with intent thereby to extort money or any pecuniary advantage, or with intent to compel the person so threatened to do any act against the person’s will or omit to do any lawful act, is guilty of a Class H felony.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.