United States v. Harry Ernest Meeker

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• construing offense of interference with flight crew members or flight attendants as a general intent crime
• construing offense of interference with flight crew members or flight attendants as a general intent crime
• holding, without men- tioning constitutional issues, that 49 U.S.C. App. § 1472(j
• “Nor is proof that the victim was in fact frightened for his own physical safety required in order to find that a defendant performed the criminal act of intimidation.”
• defendant repeatedly hit another passenger; struck the co-pilot and an off-duty flight engineer; refused to be seated; and thereafter had to be wrestled to the floor and strapped down by the pilot while kicking, flailing and spewing invectives
• “We feel . . . that when a defendant participates in proscribed conduct and causes a crew member to lose his autonomy over doing what would ordinarily be his UNITED STATES v. GONZALEZ 7973 For this reason, the dicta in Naghani (and the majority’s reliance on it

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