2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 21. - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Article 38. - CRIMES AFFECTING GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS
21-3816 Interference with the administration of justice.
21-3816. Interference with the administration of justice. (a) Interference with the administration of justice is communicating in any manner a threat of violence to any judicial officer or any prosecuting attorney or harassing a judicial officer or a prosecuting attorney by repeated vituperative communication, or picketing, parading or demonstrating in or near a building housing a judicial officer or a prosecuting attorney or near such officer's or prosecuting attorney's residence or place of abode, with intent to influence, impede or obstruct the finding, decision, ruling, order, judgment or decree of such judicial officer or prosecuting attorney on any matter then pending before the officer or prosecuting attorney.
(b) Nothing in this section shall limit or prevent the exercise by any court of this state of its power to punish for contempt.
(c) Interference with the administration of justice is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.
(d) As used in this section, "prosecuting attorney" has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 22-2202, and amendments thereto.
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