18-8-703. Bribing a witness or victim

18-8-703. Bribing a witness or victim. (1) A person commits bribing a witness or victim if he or she offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness, or a victim, or a person he or she believes is to be called to testify as a witness or victim in any official proceeding, or upon a member of the witness' family, a member of the victim's family, a person in close relationship to the witness or victim, or a person residing in the same household as the witness or victim with intent to: (a) Influence the witness or victim to testify falsely or unlawfully withhold any testimony; or (b) Induce the witness or victim to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or (c) Induce the witness or victim to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding. (2) Bribing a witness or victim is a class 4 felony.