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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 9 - OFFENSES AFFECTING ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Article 3 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
§ 97-9-127 - Retaliation against a public servant or witness
MS Code § 97-9-127 (2015) What's This?
(1) A person commits the offense of retaliation if he intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by any unlawful act in retaliation for anything lawfully done in the capacity of public servant, witness, prospective witness or informant.
(2) Retaliation is a Class 2 felony.
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