{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-641-5","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 641:5","heading":"Tampering With Witnesses and Informants.","body":"A person is guilty of a class B felony if:\nI. Believing that an official proceeding, as defined in RSA 641:1, II, or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, he attempts to induce or otherwise cause a person to:\n(a) Testify or inform falsely; or\n(b) Withhold any testimony, information, document or thing; or\n(c) Elude legal process summoning him to provide evidence; or\n(d) Absent himself from any proceeding or investigation to which he has been summoned; or\nII. He commits any unlawful act in retaliation for anything done by another in his capacity as witness or informant; or\nIII. He solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit in consideration of his doing any of the things specified in paragraph I.","path":["Title LXII: CRIMINAL CODE","Chapter 641: FALSIFICATION IN OFFICIAL MATTERS"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LXII/641/641-5.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:30:19Z","sha256":"06949796bfc13a75d4ec7e9868cf6c33fc2ff39b4d23e0d4abf64f7c4b3ff2c4","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-641-4","next":"us-nh/rsa-641-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}