United States v. Herbert A. Howard and Elmer Gary Ritter

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• finding that, since “section 1503 forbids interference with the ‘administration of justice,’ a prerequisite of its violation is a pending criminal proceeding”
• “Because section 1503 forbids interference with the ‘administration of justice,’ a prerequisite of its violation is a pending criminal proceeding.”
• statute only proscribes conduct which impedes justice or is capable of having the effect of impeding justice
• “the omnibus clause aims at obstruction of justice itself, regardless of the means used”
• “Since the omnibus clause of the statute quite clearly proclaims that all obstructions of justice are prohibited, we conclude that section 1503 gives ‘fair notice of the offending conduct’ ..., which is all the constitution requires____”
• “[T]he specific wording of section 1503 was intended to forbid certain means of obstructing justice, while the omnibus clause aims at obstruction of justice itself, regardless of the means used to reach that result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).