United States v. Antonio Lavere Thomas

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• stating that the govern- ment “must establish that the conduct was prompted, at least in part, by a corrupt motive”
• noting that \corruptly\ in the context of the obstruction statute generally means that \the defendant knowingly and intentionally undertook an action from which an obstruction of justice was a reasonably foreseeable result\
• “conduct [must be] prompted, at least in part, by a ‘corrupt motive’ ” (quoting United States v. Brand, 775 F.2d 1460, 1465 (11th Cir. 1985))
• “The defendant’s conduct must be such . . . that its natural and probable effect would be the interfer- ence with the due administration of justice.”
• government must show how defendant’s actions tended to obstruct justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).