Laws and the Biden Administration
“18 U.S. Code § 1503 - Influencing or injuring
officer or juror generally
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or
impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United
States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding
before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in
the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his
person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him,
or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such
officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or
property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or
by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences,
obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due
administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If
the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal
case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical
force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed
for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the
maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.
(b)The punishment for an
offense under this section is—
(1) in the case of a
killing, the punishment provided in sections 1111 and 1112;
(2) in the case of an
attempted killing, or a case in which the offense was committed against a petit
juror and in which a class A or B felony was charged, imprisonment for not more
than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both; and
(3) in any other case, imprisonment
for not more than 10 years, a fine under this title, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 769; Pub. L. 97–291,
§ 4(c), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1253; Pub. L.
103–322, title VI, § 60016, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13,
1994, 108
Stat. 1974, 2147; Pub. L.
104–214, § 1(3), Oct. 1, 1996, 110 Stat. 3017.)”
Whoever, with the intent of interfering with,
obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of
influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of
his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the
United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such
judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any
sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near
any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than one year, or both.
Nothing in this section shall interfere with or
prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish
for contempt.
(Added Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title I,
§ 31(a), 64
Stat. 1018; amended Pub. L.
103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)”
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