CHAPTER 530. INTERFERENCE WITH GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS AND

ESCAPE
Section 530 – Obstructing Justice

(a) Offense Defined. A person commits an offense if, with the purpose

of preventing the apprehension of or to obstruct the prosecution or defense of a

person, he knowingly:

(1) warns that person of impending discovery or apprehension; or

(2) destroys, alters, conceals, or disguises physical evidence,

plants false evidence, furnishes false information, regardless of its

admissibility in evidence; or

(3) induces a witness having knowledge material to the subject at

issue to leave the State or to conceal himself; or

(4) deters a witness from testifying freely, fully, or truthfully; or

(5) possessing knowledge material to the subject at issue, he

leaves the State or conceals himself.

(6) Subsection (a) (1) does not prohibit giving advice or warning

to bring another into compliance with law.

(b) Grading. The offense is a Class 4 felony.