United States v. Clarence M. Mitchell, III

HARRISON L. WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Clarence M. Mitchell, III, appeals his convictions for conspiring to obstruct a grand jury investigation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and endeavoring to obstruct a grand jury investigation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503. Although Mitchell contends that the district court made a number of errors requiring reversal, we do not find his arguments persuasive. We affirm.

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In May, 1985, Mitchell was called to testify before a grand jury investigating possible tax evasion and drug trafficking by Melvin D. Williams, a Baltimore resident suspected of…