State v. Lamantia

Summary

Justice Ecker dissented from the majority’s conclusion that the evidence supported the defendant’s witness-tampering conviction. The dissent reasoned that the statute criminalizes efforts intended to influence testimony in a future official proceeding, not merely efforts to influence a person’s statement during a police investigation, and that the evidence showed only the latter. Justice Ecker would have reversed the Appellate Court judgment upholding the conviction.