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Some North Carolina Laws; are any of these applicable?
Topic Started: Mar 3 2010, 12:40 PM (246 Views)
Quasimodo


North Carolina General Statutes § 5A-11 Criminal contempt

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), each of the following is criminal contempt:

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(5) Willful publication of a report of the proceedings in a court that is grossly inaccurate and presents a clear and present danger of imminent and serious threat to the administration of justice, made with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false. No person, however, may be punished for publishing a truthful report of proceedings in a court.

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(b) No person may be held in contempt under this section on the basis of the content of any broadcast, publication, or other communication unless it presents a clear and present danger of an imminent and serious threat to the administration of criminal justice.

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Quasimodo

§ 14‑58. Punishment for arson.

There shall be two degrees of arson as defined at the common law. If the dwelling burned was occupied at the time of the burning, the offense is arson in the first degree and is punishable as a Class D felony. If the dwelling burned was unoccupied at the time of the burning, the offense is arson in the second degree and is punishable as a Class G felony.
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§ 14‑47. Communicating libelous matter to newspapers.

If any person shall state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever, to the manager, editor, publisher or reporter of any newspaper or periodical for publication therein any false and libelous statement concerning any person or corporation, and thereby secure the publication of the same, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
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§ 14-225. False reports to law enforcement agencies or officers.

Any person who shall willfully make or cause to be made to a law enforcement agency or
officer any false, misleading or unfounded report, for the purpose of interfering with the
operation of a law enforcement agency, or to hinder or obstruct any law enforcement officer in
the performance of his duty, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

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§ 14-226. Intimidating or interfering with witnesses.

(a) If any person shall by threats, menaces or in any other manner intimidate or attempt
to intimidate
any person who is summoned or acting as a witness in any of the courts of this
State, or prevent or deter, or attempt to prevent or deter any person summoned or acting as such
witness from attendance upon such court, he shall be guilty of a Class H felony.
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§ 14‑5.2. Accessory before fact punishable as principal felon.

All distinctions between accessories before the fact and principals to the commission of a felony are abolished. Every person who heretofore would have been guilty as an accessory before the fact to any felony shall be guilty and punishable as a principal to that felony. However, if a person who heretofore would have been guilty and punishable as an accessory before the fact is convicted of a capital felony, and the jury finds that his conviction was based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of one or more principals, coconspirators, or accessories to the crime, he shall be guilty of a Class B2 felony.
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This applies to minors; how about to adults?

§ 14‑458.1. Cyber‑bullying; penalty.
(a) Except as otherwise made unlawful by this Article, it shall be unlawful for any person to use a computer or computer network to do any of the following:

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(3) Plant any statement, whether true or false, tending to provoke or that actually provokes any third party to stalk or harass a minor.
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