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will be committed. Violation of this paragraph is a Class D
crime; or

 
B. To cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or
facility of public transport or to cause the occupants of a
building to be moved to or required to remain in a
designated secured area. Violation of this paragraph is a
Class C crime.

 
Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §454, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2001, c. 383, §63
and affected by §156, is further amended to read:

 
A. Induces or otherwise causes, or attempts to induce or
cause, a witness or informant:

 
(1) To testify or inform falsely in a manner the actor
knows to be false; or

 
(2) To withhold testimony, information or evidence.

 
Violation of this paragraph is a Class C crime;

 
Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §1108, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 419, §20,
is amended to read:

 
5. For purposes of the causation required by subsection 1,
engaging in an act of deception described in subsection 2,
paragraph A or B is deemed to have gives rise to a permissible
inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303, that the
act of deception in fact resulted in the acquisition of any drugs
prescribed to that person by that prescribing health care
provider or person acting under the direction or supervision of
that prescribing health care provider.

 
Sec. 7. 17-A MRSA §1158, first ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 2001,
c. 667, Pt. A, §37 and affected by §38, is amended to read:

 
As part of every judgment of conviction and sentence imposed,
a firearm must be forfeited to the State if that firearm:

 
Sec. 8. 17-A MRSA §1159 is enacted to read:

 
§1159.__Recalcitrant witness in execution of sentence

 
involving imprisonment

 
In the event a witness in a grand jury or criminal proceeding
has been ordered confined by a court of record in the State as a
remedial sanction for refusing to comply with an order of the
court to testify or provide evidence, and that witness is


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