Bill Text: NC S268 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-23 - Ch. SL 2011-190 [S268 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S268-Amended.html
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.