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Prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 111, which involves assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
Legal experts read C. § 372—the conspiracy-to-impede-or-injure-officer statute—as a broad, historically rooted conspiracy offense that can reach coordinated efforts to , but they sharply disagree abou...
Prosecutors typically initiate cases by investigating alleged interference with testimony under (federal) or analogous state statutes, then seek arrest authority either from a magistrate through a cri...
Department-wide manuals and successive Attorney General memoranda have materially shaped how federal prosecutors decide what charges to bring, steering discretion through formal principles, supervisor...