From: mha23x@gmail.com   
      
   Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant (18 U.S. Code § 1512)    
      
   *****    
      
   18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant    
      
   Current through Pub. L. 113-185. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)    
   US Code    
   Notes    
   Authorities (CFR)    
   prev | next    
   (a)    
   (1) Whoever kills or attempts to kill another person, with intent to--    
   (A) prevent the attendance or testimony of any person in an official   
   proceeding;    
   (B) prevent the production of a record, document, or other object, in an   
   official proceeding; or    
   (C) prevent the communication by any person to a law enforcement officer or   
   judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or   
   possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of   
   probation, parole, or release    
   pending judicial proceedings;    
   shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).    
   (2) Whoever uses physical force or the threat of physical force against any   
   person, or attempts to do so, with intent to--    
   (A) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official   
   proceeding;    
   (B) cause or induce any person to--    
   (i) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from   
   an official proceeding;    
   (ii) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the   
   integrity or availability of the object for use in an official proceeding;    
   (iii) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to   
   produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or    
   (iv) be absent from an official proceeding to which that person has been   
   summoned by legal process; or    
   (C) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer   
   or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or   
   possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of   
   probation, supervised release,   
    parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;    
   shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).    
   (3) The punishment for an offense under this subsection is--    
   (A) in the case of a killing, the punishment provided in sections 1111 and   
   1112;    
   (B) in the case of--    
   (i) an attempt to murder; or    
   (ii) the use or attempted use of physical force against any person;    
   imprisonment for not more than 30 years; and    
   (C) in the case of the threat of use of physical force against any person,   
   imprisonment for not more than 20 years.    
   (b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades   
   another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward   
   another person, with intent to--    
   (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official   
   proceeding;    
   (2) cause or induce any person to--    
   (A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from   
   an official proceeding;    
   (B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the   
   object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;    
   (C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to   
   produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or    
   (D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been   
   summoned by legal process; or    
   (3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer   
   or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or   
   possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of   
   probation  [1] supervised    
   release,, [1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;    
   shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.    
   (c) Whoever corruptly--    
   (1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other   
   object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity   
   or availability for use in an official proceeding; or    
   (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or   
   attempts to do so,    
   shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.    
   (d) Whoever intentionally harasses another person and thereby hinders, delays,   
   prevents, or dissuades any person from--    
   (1) attending or testifying in an official proceeding;    
   (2) reporting to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States the   
   commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of   
   conditions of probation  [1] supervised release,, [1] parole, or release   
   pending judicial proceedings;    
   (3) arresting or seeking the arrest of another person in connection with a   
   Federal offense; or    
   (4) causing a criminal prosecution, or a parole or probation revocation   
   proceeding, to be sought or instituted, or assisting in such prosecution or   
   proceeding;    
   or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more   
   than 3 years, or both.    
   (e) In a prosecution for an offense under this section, it is an affirmative   
   defense, as to which the defendant has the burden of proof by a preponderance   
   of the evidence, that the conduct consisted solely of lawful conduct and that   
   the defendant's sole    
   intention was to encourage, induce, or cause the other person to testify   
   truthfully.    
   (f) For the purposes of this section--    
   (1) an official proceeding need not be pending or about to be instituted at   
   the time of the offense; and    
   (2) the testimony, or the record, document, or other object need not be   
   admissible in evidence or free of a claim of privilege.    
   (g) In a prosecution for an offense under this section, no state of mind need   
   be proved with respect to the circumstance--    
   (1) that the official proceeding before a judge, court, magistrate judge,   
   grand jury, or government agency is before a judge or court of the United   
   States, a United States magistrate judge, a bankruptcy judge, a Federal grand   
   jury, or a Federal    
   Government agency; or    
   (2) that the judge is a judge of the United States or that the law enforcement   
   officer is an officer or employee of the Federal Government or a person   
   authorized to act for or on behalf of the Federal Government or serving the   
   Federal Government as an    
   adviser or consultant.    
   (h) There is extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over an offense under this   
   section.    
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)