0001|                           SENATE BILL 1214
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            L. SKIP VERNON
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CRIMINAL LAW; ADDING ELEMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL
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0012|     OFFENSE OF INTIMIDATION OF A WITNESS; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE
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0013|     NMSA 1978.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 30-24-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963,
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0017|     Chapter 303, Section 24-3, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "30-24-3.  BRIBERY OR INTIMIDATION OF A WITNESS--
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0019|     RETALIATION AGAINST A WITNESS.--
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0020|               A.  Bribery or intimidation of a witness consists of
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0021|     any person knowingly:
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0022|                    (1)  giving or offering to give anything of
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0023|     value to any witness or to any person likely to become a
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0024|     witness in any judicial, administrative, legislative or other
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0025|     official cause or proceeding to testify falsely or to abstain
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0001|     from testifying to any fact in such cause or proceeding; 
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0002|                    (2)  intimidating or threatening any witness or
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0003|     person likely to become a witness in any judicial,
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0004|     administrative, legislative or other official cause or
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0005|     proceeding for the purpose of preventing such individual from
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0006|     testifying to any fact, to abstain from testifying or to
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0007|     testify falsely; <s>[or]</s>
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0008|                    (3)  intimidating or threatening any person or
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0009|     giving or offering to give anything of value to any person with
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0010|     the intent to keep the person from truthfully reporting to a
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0011|     law enforcement officer or any agency of government that is
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0012|     responsible for enforcing criminal laws information relating to
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0013|     the commission or possible commission of a felony offense or a
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0014|     violation of conditions of probation, parole or release pending
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0015|     judicial proceedings; <u>or
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<u></u>0016| <u>                   (4)  intimidating or threatening any child or
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<u></u>0017| <u>    giving or offering to give anything of value to any child with
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<u></u>0018| <u>    the intent to keep the child from truthfully reporting to an
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<u></u>0019| <u>    adult information relating to the commission or possible
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<u></u>0020| <u>    commission of a felony offense or a violation of conditions of
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<u></u>0021| <u>    probation, parole or release pending judicial proceedings</u>.
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0022|               B.  Retaliation against a witness consists of any
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0023|     person knowingly engaging in conduct that causes bodily injury
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0024|     to another person or damage to the tangible property of another
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0025|     person, or threatening to do so, with the intent to retaliate
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0001|     against any person for any information relating to the
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0002|     commission or possible commission of a felony offense or a
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0003|     violation of conditions of probation, parole or release pending
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0004|     judicial proceedings given by a person to a law enforcement
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0005|     officer.
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0006|               C.  Whoever commits bribery or intimidation of a
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0007|     witness or retaliation against a witness is guilty of a fourth
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0008|     degree felony."
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0009|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0010|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1997.
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