Sixth Circuit· 10/11/1985
United States v. Phillip Ray Jeter
Citations
- 775 F.2d 670
- 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 24312
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- 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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