FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SHOEMAKER (8), MOORE, BYRD, BEHNEN AND GOODMAN (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 22, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 565.084, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to tampering with a judicial officer, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 565.084, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.084, to read as follows: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, juvenile court officer, drug court commissioner, family court commissioner, state probation or parole 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.