Statute 21-3816: Interference with the administration of justice.
(a) Interference with the administration of justice is
communicating in
any manner a threat of violence to any judicial officer or any
prosecuting attorney or harassing a judicial officer or a
prosecuting attorney by repeated vituperative communication, or picketing,
parading or demonstrating in or near a building housing a judicial officer or
a prosecuting attorney or near such officer's or prosecuting
attorney's residence or place of abode, with intent to
influence, impede
or obstruct the finding, decision, ruling, order, judgment or decree of
such judicial officer or prosecuting attorney on any matter then
pending before the officer or prosecuting attorney.
(b) Nothing in this section shall limit or prevent the exercise
by any
court of this state of its power to punish for contempt.
(c) Interference with the administration of justice is a class A nonperson
misdemeanor.
(d) As used in this section, "prosecuting attorney" has the meaning
ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 22-2202, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3816;
L. 1992, ch. 239, § 160;
L. 1993, ch. 291, § 109;
L. 1996, ch. 224, § 7; July 1.