Legal Opinion
United States v. Wolfname
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2016No. 15-8025PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORITZ, Circuit Judge.
In this case, the parties ask us to decide whether assault is an element of every conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1) — a statute that prohibits forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, interfering with, or assaulting a federal officer engaged in the performance of his or her official duties.
As it turns out, however, an earlier panel of this court has already answered that question. See United States v. Hathaway, 318 F.3d 1001, 1007-10 (10th Cir. 2003) (defining each of § Ill’s proscribed offenses based on the type of assault involved). Thus, the district…
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