Arkansas Code § 5-53-109

Intimidating a witness
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(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned. (b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony. Amended by Act 2019, No. 1017,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609.
(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned. (b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony. Amended by Act 2019, No. 1017,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609.
(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned. (b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony. Amended by Act 2019, No. 1017,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609.
(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.
(1) Influencing the testimony of that person;
(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or
(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.
(b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony.
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609.

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