United States v. Veal

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Garrity does not prohibit a subsequent perjury or obstruction of justice charge if a witness makes a false statement
• noting that Garrity immunity “is Supreme Court-created and self-executing; it arises by operation of law; no authority or statute needs to grant it”
• misleading conduct statute encompasses “a wide range of conduct that thwarts justice,” including “us[ing] unwitting third parties” to conceal the truth
• providing that § 1512 “does not depend on the existence or imminency of a federal case or investigation but rather on the possible existence of a federal crime and a defendant’s intention to thwart an inquiry into that crime”
• distinguishing a subsection (A) offense from a subsection (C) offense on the basis of the defendant’s intent
• referring to “3 percent of the first $1,000 collected and 1 1/2 percent on the excess of any sum over $1,000” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).