(1) A person commits bribing a witness or victim if he or she offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness, or a victim, or a person he or she believes is to be called to testify as a witness or victim in any official proceeding, or upon a member of the witness' family, a member of the victim's family, a person in close relationship to the witness or victim, or a person residing in the same household as the witness or victim with intent to:
(a) Influence the witness or victim to testify falsely or unlawfully withhold any testimony; or
(b) Induce the witness or victim to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or
(c) Induce the witness or victim to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding.
(2) Bribing a witness or victim is a class 4 felony.
Source: L. 84: Entire part added, p. 501, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2004: IP(1) and (1)(c) amended, p. 435, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 18-8-602 as it existed prior to 1984.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
5
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1999–2022 · leading case:
People v. Hickman, 988 P.2d 628 (Colo. 1999).
People v. Hickman, 988 P.2d 628 (Colo. 1999).
· cites it 2× “[17] See § 18-8-703 ("Bribing a witness or victim"); § 18-8-704 ("Intimidating a witness or victim"); § 18-8-705 ("Aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim"); and § 18-8-707 ("Tampering with a witness or victim").”
Rademacher v. Becker, 2015 COA 133, 374 P.3d 499.
· cites it 3× “Public Policy as Expressed in Colorado Statutory Law ¶ 19 In our view, section 18-8-703, C.R.S. 2016, reflects a public policy to prohibit the influence of criminal prosecutions.”
People v. Gifford, 76 P.3d 519 (Colo. 2003).
· cites it 4× “The respondent failed to fully consider and then discuss with her client the potential for violating C.R.S. § 18-8-703 (bribing a witness) and/or § 18-8-707 (tampering with a witness) if the respondent and/or the client made such offer to the wife or her attorney in the…”
People v. Larry Gene Lancaster, 519 P.3d 1053 (Colo. Ct. App. 2022).
· cites it 6× “Thus, the class of persons protected by the bribery statute is broader than that of the tampering statute.”
Rademacher v. Becker, 2015 COA 133.
· cites it 3× “Public Policy as Expressed in Colorado Statutory Law ¶19        In our view, section 18-8-703, C.R.S. 2015, reflects a public policy to prohibit the influence of criminal prosecutions.”
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-8-703(1): 1 case
People v. Larry Gene Lancaster, 519 P.3d 1053 (Colo. Ct. App. 2022).
“Thus, the class of persons protected by the bribery statute is broader than that of the tampering statute.”
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-8-703(1)(a): 1 case
People v. Larry Gene Lancaster, 519 P.3d 1053 (Colo. Ct. App. 2022).
“Thus, the class of persons protected by the bribery statute is broader than that of the tampering statute.”
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