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RSA 641:5 · Tampering With Witnesses and Informants

Title
CRIMINAL CODE
Chapter
641 · FALSIFICATION IN OFFICIAL MATTERS
Status
current
Official source linked
Yes

Official source

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.

Source note

Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.

Source history

  • 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973

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