{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-109","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 5-53-109","heading":"Intimidating a witness","body":"(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned. (b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony. Amended by Act 2019, No. 1017,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2609; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2609.\n\n(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: (1) Influencing the testimony of that person; (2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or (3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.\n\n(1) Influencing the testimony of that person;\n\n(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or\n\n(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.\n\n(b) Intimidating a witness is a Class B felony.","path":["AR Code","Title 5","Chapter 53","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"d0898b899410418de4dd98a242fb5281a5cba03b67a030472015f114475062e8","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-108","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-110"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}