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Tampering with a Witness: F.S. 914.22

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Tampering with a Witness– The crime of tampering with a witness occurs when a person knowingly uses or attempts to use intimidation, physical force, threats, misleading conduct, or offers financial benefit to another person with the intent that the person does one of the following things:

1. Withhold testimony, a record, document, or another object from an official investigation or official proceeding.
2. Alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the integrity or availability of the object for use in an official investigation or official proceeding.
3. Evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness or to produce a record, document, or another object, in an official investigation or an official proceeding.
4. Be absent from an official proceeding when that person is under subpoena.
5. Hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of information relating to the commission or possible commission of an offense or a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or release pending a judicial proceeding.
6. Testify untruthfully in an official investigation or an official proceeding.

There are varying degrees of severity and punishment for this crime. Typically, this crime is one degree more severe than the original crime. For example, if a person tampers with a witness in a first-degree misdemeanor case, they would be charged with third-degree felony witness tampering