United States v. Hakeem Abdul Rasheed, AKA Clifford Jones, United States of America v. Janice Phillips

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• holding \that the word 'corruptly' as used in the statute means that the act must be done with the purpose of obstructing justice.\
• explaining, in the context of a fraud prosecution of religious leaders for what “was essentially a Ponzi scheme,” that “the sincerity of the [defendants] claiming to hold such beliefs can be examined”
• nonconstitutional error harmless unless it is more probable than not that the error materially affected the verdict
• nonconstitutional error harmless unless it is more probable than not that the error materially affected the verdict
• “the destruction or concealment of documents can fall within the prohibition of the statute” by “suppress[ing] evidence”
• “We hold that the word ‘corruptly’ as used in the statute means that the act must be done with the purpose of obstructing justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).