P.R. Laws tit. 33, § 4912
Any person who performs any of the following acts shall incur a misdemeanor:
(a) Breach of the peace, noise or disturbance, or behaving in a contemptuous or insolent manner toward a court of justice or a judge in the course of a judicial investigation or proceeding, thus directly tending to interrupting the procedures or impairing the respect due to its authority, or in the presence of the jury while it is sitting or deliberating on any cause of action.
(b) Disobedience of any decree, mandate, summons or other legal order issued or entered by any court.
(c) Unlawful or obstinate refusal by any person to take oath or meet the requirements as a witness in any cause pending before any court, or refusal, without a legitimate excuse, to answer any legal interrogation after having been sworn in or having met said requirements.
(d) Scurrilous or libelous criticism of the decrees, orders, sentences or proceedings of any court which tend to discredit the court or a judge.
(e) To knowingly publish any false or overtly inaccurate report on any judicial proceedings.
History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 284, eff. May 1, 2005.