2005 Idaho Code - 18-2604 — INTIMIDATING A WITNESS

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 26
                       EVIDENCE FALSIFIED OR CONCEALED
                     AND WITNESSES INTIMIDATED OR BRIBED
    18-2604.  INTIMIDATING A WITNESS. (1) Any person who, by direct or
indirect force, or by any threats to a person or property, or by any manner
wilfully intimidates, influences, impedes, deters, threatens, harasses,
obstructs or prevents a witness, including a child witness, or any person who
may be called as a witness or any person he believes may be called as a
witness in any civil proceeding from testifying freely, fully and truthfully
in that civil proceeding is guilty of a misdemeanor.
    (2)  Any person who, by direct or indirect force, or by any threats to a
person or property, or by any manner wilfully intimidates, threatens or
harasses any person because such person has testified or because he believes
that such person has testified in any civil proceedings is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
    (3)  Any person who, by direct or indirect force, or by any threats to
person or property, or by any manner wilfully intimidates, influences,
impedes, deters, threatens, harasses, obstructs or prevents, a witness,
including a child witness, or any person who may be called as a witness or any
person he believes may be called as a witness in any criminal proceeding or
juvenile evidentiary hearing from testifying freely, fully and truthfully in
that criminal proceeding or juvenile evidentiary hearing is guilty of a
felony.
    (4)  Any person who, by direct or indirect force, or by any threats to a
person or property, or by any manner wilfully intimidates, threatens or
harasses any person because such person has testified or because he believes
that such person has testified in any criminal proceeding or juvenile
evidentiary hearing is guilty of a felony.
    (5)  The fact that a person was not actually prevented from testifying
shall not be a defense to a charge brought under subsection (1), (2), (3) or
(4) of this section.