GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
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SENATE BILL 268
Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 6/7/11
House Committee Substitute Favorable 6/15/11
Short Title: Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses. |
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March 9, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to create enhanced protections for victims and witnesses by increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of intimidating or interfering with a witness.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-226(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) If any person
shall by threats, menaces or in any other manner intimidate or attempt to
intimidate any person who is summoned or acting as a witness in any of the
courts of this State, or prevent or deter, or attempt to prevent or deter any
person summoned or acting as such witness from attendance upon such court, he
the person shall be guilty of a Class H felony.Class E
felony."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.