Lang v. O'Connell

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• explaining that extortion would occur if an officer took money and “agree[d] to use it in settling a pending or threatened prosecution”
• If a ministerial officer used his position \for the purpose of awing or seducing\ a person to pay him a bribe that would be extortion
• If a ministerial officer used his position “for the purpose of awing or seducing” a person to pay him a bribe that would be extortion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).