2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 13 Criminal Code
13-2802 Influencing a witness; classification


AZ Rev Stat § 13-2802 (1996 through 1st Reg Sess 50th Legis) What's This?

13-2802. Influencing a witness; classification

A. A person commits influencing a witness if such person threatens a witness or offers, confers or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness in any official proceeding or a person he believes may be called as a witness with intent to:

1. Influence the testimony of that person; or

2. Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or

3. Induce that person to absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.

B. Influencing a witness is a class 5 felony.

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