AB 71

Under current law, no one may intentionally cause bodily harm to a person that

he or she knows is or was a juror, if the act is motivated by the juror's participation

in a verdict or indictment. Whoever does so is guilty of a Class H felony, and may be

fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than six years, or both. Under

this bill, a person who intentionally causes or threatens to cause bodily harm to an

individual he or she knows is or was a juror in any criminal or civil proceeding

involving the person, or who intentionally causes or threatens to cause bodily harm

to a member of a juror's family, is guilty of a Class H felony.

Current law also allows a judge, upon sentencing a person for a crime, to

prohibit the person from contacting a victim of the person's crime during any part of

the person's sentence or probation. The bill allows a judge to prohibit a person who

is convicted of a crime from contacting, for any part of the person's sentence or

probation, a juror who served at any proceeding related to the person's crime.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to

result if the bill is enacted.