NYSentencing

§ 215.15 Intimidating a victim or witness in the third degree.
    A  person is guilty of intimidating a victim or witness in the third
degree when, knowing that another person possesses information  relating
to  a criminal transaction and other than in the course of that criminal
transaction or immediate flight therefrom, he:
    1.  Wrongfully  compels  or  attempts to compel such other person to
refrain from communicating such information to any  court,  grand  jury,
prosecutor,  police  officer  or peace officer by means of instilling in
him a fear that the actor will  cause  physical  injury  to  such  other
person or another person; or
    2.  Intentionally  damages  the  property  of  such  other person or
another person for the  purpose  of  compelling  such  other  person  or
another  person  to  refrain  from  communicating, or on account of such
other person or another person having communicated, information relating
to  that  criminal  transaction  to  any  court, grand jury, prosecutor,
police officer or peace officer.
    Intimidating  a  victim  or witness in the third degree is a class E
felony.
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