FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 76
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CLAYTON.
Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 565.084, RSMo 2000, relating to tampering with a judicial officer, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Section 565.084, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.084, to read as follows:
565.084. 1. A person commits the crime of tampering with a judicial officer if, with the purpose to harass, intimidate or influence a judicial officer in the performance of such officer's official duties, [he] the actor:
(1) Threatens or causes harm to such judicial officer or members of such judicial officer's family;
(2) Uses force, threats, or deception against or toward such judicial officer or members of such judicial officer's family;
(3) Offers, conveys or agrees to convey any benefit direct or indirect upon such judicial officer or such judicial officer's family;
(4) Engages in conduct reasonably calculated to harass or alarm such judicial officer or such judicial officer's family, including stalking pursuant to section 565.225.
2. A judicial officer for purposes of this section shall be a judge, arbitrator, special master, juvenile court commissioner, state probation or parole officer, juvenile court officer or referee.
3. A judicial officer's family for purposes of this section shall be:
(1) [His] The officer spouse; or
(2) [His or his] The officer's or the officer's spouse's ancestor or descendant by blood or adoption; or
(3) [His] The officer's stepchild, while the marriage creating that relationship exists.
4. Tampering with a judicial officer is a class C felony.
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