{"data":{"id":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-31-4","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"720 ILCS 5/31-4","heading":"Obstructing justice.","body":"(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts:\n(1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false information; or\n(2) Induces a witness having knowledge material to the subject at issue to leave the State or conceal himself or herself; or\n(3) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at issue, he or she leaves the State or conceals himself; or\n(4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a child under 13 years of age reports materially false information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner, coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or (b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.\n(b) Sentence.\n(1) Obstructing justice is a Class 4 felony, except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (b).\n(2) Obstructing justice in furtherance of streetgang related or gang-related activity, as defined in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, is a Class 3 felony.","path":["CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES","Criminal Code of 2012."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1876\u0026ChapterID=53\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:41Z","sha256":"dd10e597288442c4ed97bf1fe674a6ba0b33a69286d3ebe0c205e627b98f88f7","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-31-3","next":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-31-4.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}