{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-8-703","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 18-8-703","heading":"Bribing a witness or victim.","body":"(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:\n\n(a) Influence the witness or victim to testify falsely or unlawfully withhold any testimony; or\n\n(b) Induce the witness or victim to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or\n\n(c) Induce the witness or victim to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding.\n\n(2) Bribing a witness or victim is a class 4 felony.","path":["Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE","Article 8 - Offenses - Governmental Operations","Part 7 - VICTIMS AND WITNESSES PROTECTION"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-18.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"b2e14a6fa542132c1f3be1dee987b75605218ea682fd349bfd67a02bf048ed4c","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-8-702","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-8-704"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}