Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• carjacking conviction could not stand where evidence did not establish that force was used to obtain the victim’s van
• noting that “if the investigation or prosecution a defendant tries to hamper turns out to be federal, the [defendant] is guilty of tampering with a federal witness even if the prosecution is unable to establish the facts necessary to establish a violation of federal law”
• affirming conviction under § 1512(b)(2)(B)for persuading another person to paint over blood spatter
• “Rather, the record establishes that the van was taken as an afterthought in an attempt to get Romero’s limp body away from the crime scene.”
• \All that [a parallel provision in the Witness Protection Act] requires is that the government establish that the defendants had the intent to influence an investigation that happened to be federal.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).