Sixth Circuit· 10/11/1985

United States v. Phillip Ray Jeter

Citations

775 F.2d 670
1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 24312

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holding that the defendant’s unlawful disclosure of secret grand jury testimony was “merely another type of ordinary criminal communication in a conspiracy that has been traditionally found undeserving of any First Amendment protection”
concluding that 18 U.S.C. § 1503 was not vague or overbroad because “[t]he reach of the statute is clearly limited to such constitutionally unprotected and purportedly illicit activity as that undertaken by [the defendant] . . .”
\one must impede the due administration of justice with the general intent of knowledge as well as the specific intent of purpose to obstruct\
statute limited to those who “corruptly endeavor to interfere with the due administration of justice . . . is clearly limited to . . . constitutionally unprotected and purportedly illicit activity”
construing 18 U.S.C. S 1503 (1982)

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Judges: Wellford, Merritt

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