HOUSE AMENDED
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1204 Session of 1995


        INTRODUCED BY LEMMOND, BAKER, SHAFFER, SALVATORE, O'PAKE,
           GERLACH, MUSTO, DELP, ULIANA, HECKLER, TOMLINSON BRIGHTBILL
           AND HART, AUGUST 18, 1995

        AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
           REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 14, 1996

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for hindering
     3     apprehension or prosecution.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 5105 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 5105.  Hindering apprehension or prosecution.
     9     (a)  Offense defined.--A person commits an offense if, with
    10  intent to hinder the apprehension, prosecution, conviction or
    11  punishment of another for crime OR VIOLATION OF PROBATION,        <--
    12  PAROLE, INTERMEDIATE PUNISHMENT OR ACCELERATED REHABILITATIVE
    13  DISPOSITION, he:
    14         (1)  harbors or conceals the other;
    15         (2)  provides or aids in providing a weapon,
    16     transportation, disguise or other means of avoiding
    17     apprehension or effecting escape;

     1         (3)  conceals or destroys evidence of the crime, or
     2     tampers with a witness, informant, document or other source
     3     of information, regardless of its admissibility in evidence;
     4         (4)  warns the other of impending discovery or
     5     apprehension, except that this paragraph does not apply to a
     6     warning given in connection with an effort to bring another
     7     into compliance with law; or
     8         (5)  [volunteers] provides false information to a law
     9     enforcement officer.
    10     (b)  Grading.--The offense is a felony of the third degree if
    11  the conduct which the actor knows has been charged or is liable
    12  to be charged against the person aided would constitute a felony
    13  of the first or second degree. Otherwise it is a misdemeanor of
    14  the second degree.
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.










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