Arizona Laws 13-2802. Influencing a witness; classification
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A. A person commits influencing a witness if such person threatens a witness or offers, confers or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness in any official proceeding or a person he believes may be called as a witness with intent to:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-2802
- Benefit: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- Official proceeding: means a proceeding heard before any legislative, judicial, administrative or other governmental agency or official authorized to hear evidence under oath. See Arizona Laws 13-2801
- Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
1. Influence the testimony of that person; or
2. Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or
3. Induce that person to absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.
B. Influencing a witness is a class 5 felony.