GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 734
SENATE BILL 714

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR CONSPIRACY OR SOLICITATION TO COMMIT A MURDER AND CONSPIRACY OR SOLICITATION TO COMMIT  MURDER OF CERTAIN PERSONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 6 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-18.1.  Conspiracy or solicitation to commit murder; conspiracy or solicitation to commit murder of a law enforcement officer, State official, juror or witness; punishments.
(a)	Conspiracy to commit murder or solicitation to commit murder is a Class E felony.
(b)	Conspiracy to commit murder or solicitation to commit murder of a law enforcement officer, judge or justice, former judge or justice, prosecutor or former prosecutor, juror or former juror or witness or former witness against the defendant while engaged in the performance of his official duties or because of the exercise of his official duties, is a Class D felony."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1989, and shall apply to offenses occurring on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of August, 1989.