ENTITLED An Act to revise the crime of witness tampering.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 22-11-19 be AMENDED:
22-11-19. Any person who injures or threatens to injure any person or property; who offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit on a witness or prospective witness in an official proceeding; or who corruptly persuades or corruptly influences another person to induce the witness to:
(1) Testify falsely;
(2) Withhold any testimony, information, document, or thing;
(3) Elude legal process summoning the witness to testify or supply evidence; or
(4) Absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which the witness has been legally summoned;
is guilty of tampering with a witness. Any person who injures, or threatens to injure, any person or property in retaliation for that person testifying in an official proceeding, or for cooperating with law enforcement, government officials, investigators, or prosecutors, is guilty of tampering with a witness. Tampering with a witness is a Class 4 felony.
For the purposes of this section, the term, corruptly, means wrongful or immoral and done with an intent to impede the administration of justice.
An Act to revise the crime of witness tampering.
I certify that the attached Act originated in the:
Secretary of the Senate
President of the Senate
Attest:
Secretary of the Senate
Speaker of the House
Attest:
Chief Clerk
File No. ____ Chapter No. ______
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Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________,
2023 at ____________M.
By for the Governor
The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________, A.D., 2023
ss. Office of the Secretary of State
Filed ____________, 2023 at _________ o'clock __M.
Secretary of State
By Asst. Secretary of State
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