13-2802. Influencing a witness;
classification


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:


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.