threatening witnesses
Coercing trial testimony
Threatening witnesses is the crime of attempting to intimidate, coerce, or harm someone who might testify in a legal proceeding.
The goal is typically to prevent testimony, change it, or punish cooperation with authorities.
The offense covers threats against potential witnesses, actual witnesses, and their families: He was charged with threatening witnesses after calling the victim's mother.
Related charges include witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- scare tacticsMethods using alarm to influence
- tamperingImproper interference with something
- jury tamperingIllegally influencing trial panelists
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