REFERENCE TITLE: tampering with a witness

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014

HB 2312

Introduced by Representatives Pierce J, Forese, Senator Driggs: Representative Wheeler, Senators Farley, McComish, Melvin, Tovar

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13-2804, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to interference with judicial and other proceedings.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-2804, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2804.  Tampering with a witness; classification

A.  A person commits tampering with a witness if such the person knowingly induces or attempts to induce a witness in any official proceeding or a person he believes may be called as a witness to do any of the following:

1.  Unlawfully withhold any testimony. ; or

2.  Testify falsely. ; or

3.  Absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.

4.  Evade a summons or subpoena.

B.  Tampering with a witness is a class 6 felony. END_STATUTE