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RSA 641:5: Tampering With Witnesses and Informants

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RSA 641:5

641:5 Tampering With Witnesses and Informants. – A person is guilty of a class B felony if:

I.

Believing that an official proceeding, as defined in RSA 641:1, II, or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he attempts to induce or otherwise cause a person to:

(a)

Testify or inform falsely; or

(b)

Withhold any testimony, information, document or thing; or

(c)

Elude legal process summoning him to provide evidence; or

(d)

Absent himself from any proceeding or investigation to which he has been summoned; or

II.

He commits any unlawful act in retaliation for anything done by another in his capacity as witness or informant; or

III.

He solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit in consideration of his doing any of the things specified in paragraph I. Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.