2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-455. Preventing witness from giving testimony - Threatening witness who has given testimony.
A. Every person who willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person from giving testimony or producing any record, document or other object, who has been duly summoned or subpoenaed or endorsed on the criminal information or juvenile petition as a witness, or who makes a report of abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 1-2-101 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes or Section 10-104 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, or who is a witness to any reported crime, or threatens or procures physical or mental harm through force or fear with the intent to prevent any witness from appearing in court to give his or her testimony or produce any record, document or other object, or to alter his or her testimony is, upon conviction, guilty of a felony punishable by not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
B. Every person who threatens physical harm through force or fear or causes or procures physical harm to be done to any person or harasses any person or causes a person to be harassed because of testimony given by such person in any civil or criminal trial or proceeding, or who makes a report of abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 1-2-101 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes or Section 10-104 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, is, upon conviction, guilty of a felony punishable by not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
R.L. 1910, § 2230. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 158, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1977; Laws 1981, c. 92, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1991, c. 296, § 29, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 182, § 1, emerg. eff. May 17, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 199, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 111, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2013, c. 243, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 199 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
