(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of:
(1) Influencing the testimony of that person;
(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or
(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.
(b) Intimidating a witness is a Class C felony.