smith432
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:36 am Post subject: What is Witness Intimidation? |
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Witness intimidation is the practice of threatening a witness in a court proceeding in an effort to influence his testimony. A very real problem in the United States and other countries, this practice has elicited a variety of responses, from criminalization to establishing elaborate programs to protect witnesses. Witness intimidation appears to take two different forms: specific threats against a witness, and the establishment of an environment of intimidation and cultural demonization of those who testify or act as informants to law enforcement. In the former case, witness intimidation is perpetrated by individual criminal defendants and their associates; in the latter, it’s become a cultural phenomenon with its roots in popular music.
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