United States v. Thomas Andrew Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• observing that justice is obstructed “when attempts to gather relevant evidence ... are frustrated by [a] blatantly evasive witness”
• observing that justice is obstructed “when attempts to gather relevant evidence . . . are frustrated by [a] blatantly evasive witness”
• “[Gjovernment must ... prove at trial that the [false or evasive] testimony had the effect of impeding justice.”
• “[P]erjury alone does not have a necessarily inherent obstructive effect on the administration of justice.”
• “[wjhether Griffin’s testimony is described in the indictment as ‘evasive’ because he deliberately concealed knowledge or ‘false’ because he blocked the flow of truthful information is immaterial.”
• “The omnibus clause of [§ 1503] clearly states that it punishes all endeavors to obstruct the due administration of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).