PRINTER'S NO. 1600
No. 1370 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY SCRIMENTI, TIGUE, GODSHALL, SOLOBAY, BELARDI,
BELFANTI, COY, HARHAI, HORSEY AND PETRARCA, APRIL 23, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 23, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the grading of
3 the crime of retaliation against prosecutor or judicial
4 official.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 4953.1(b) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 4953.1. Retaliation against prosecutor or judicial official.
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11 (b) Grading.--The offense is a felony of the second degree
12 if any of the following apply:
13 (1) The actor employs force, violence or deception, or
14 attempts or threatens to employ force, violence or deception,
15 upon the prosecutor or judicial official [or, with the
16 requisite intent or knowledge, upon any other person].
17 (2) The actor's conduct is in furtherance of a
18 conspiracy to retaliate against a prosecutor or judicial
1 official.
2 (3) The actor solicits another to or accepts or agrees
3 to accept any pecuniary or other benefit to retaliate against
4 a prosecutor or judicial official.
5 (4) The actor has suffered any prior conviction for any
6 violation of this title or any predecessor law hereto, or has
7 been convicted, under any Federal statute or statute of any
8 other state, of an act which would be a violation of this
9 title if committed in this Commonwealth.
10 (5) The actor causes property damage or loss in excess
11 of $1,000.
12 Otherwise the offense is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
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14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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