Title 15, Chapter 18, Section 26
( 15-18-26)
If a district attorney takes or agrees to take from any person money
or any other valuable thing which is not authorized by law, the
consideration whereof is a promise or undertaking to procure or to
try to procure a finding by the grand jury of a "true bill" or "no
bill" upon an indictment, or to make or not to make a presentment,
or to postpone or delay a state case or an arrest, or to advise that
it be done or how it may be done, and an indictment is handed down
or a presentment is made to this effect, the district attorney shall
be disqualified from further discharging his or her official duties
until a trial is had upon the indictment or presentment. If the
trial results in a conviction, he or she shall be fined and
imprisoned, at the discretion of the court. Such a conviction is
also a ground for impeachment. The disqualification shall continue
until the adjournment of the next session of the General Assembly.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to certify
immediately such proceedings to the Governor. |