(a) A person commits the crime of disturbing a judicial proceeding if, with purpose to intimidate a judge, attorney, juror, party, or witness, and thus influence a judicial proceeding, he disrupts or disturbs a judicial proceeding by participating in an assembly and calling aloud, shouting, or holding or displaying a placard or sign containing written or printed matter, concerning the conduct of the judicial proceeding or the character of a judge. attorney, juror, party, or witness engaged in that proceeding, or calling for or demanding any specified action or determination by the judge, attorney, juror, party, or witness in connection with that proceeding.
(b) Disturbing a judicial proceeding is a class A misdemeanor.
History: 1979, PL 16-43 § 2.