Cite as: 21 CNCA § 455

A. Every person who willfully prevents any person from giving testimony who has been duly summoned or subpoenaed or endorsed on the criminal information as a witness or threatens physical or mental harm through force or fear with the intent to prevent the witness from appearing in Court to give his testimony, or to alter his testimony, is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), or by not more than three (3) years imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

B. Every person who threatens physical harm through force or fear or causes or procures physical harm to be done to any person or harasses any person or causes a person to be harassed because of testimony given by such person in any civil or criminal trial or proceeding, or who makes a report of abuse or neglect is, upon conviction, guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), or by not more than three (3) years imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990. Amended LA 28-20, eff. December 14, 2020.