United States v. Charles Patterson, A/K/A Daniel Burton

How courts have described this case

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• giving of false name to authorities at time of arrest amounted to attempt to conceal material evidence and therefore fell within Sec. 3C1.1
• refusing to address vagueness challenge to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1 for same reason
• “Section 3C1.1 . . . encompasses ‘attempted’ obstruction, which we construe as not requiring success in actual obstruction.”
• defendant's refusal to reveal true name to magistrate warranted enhancement
• giving false name to arresting officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).