Legal Opinion
United States v. Peter Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 25, 1992No. 1548, Docket 92-1082PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
A jury concluded that Peter Johnson had used intimidation and threatened two people with the intent to cause them to withhold testimony from an official proceeding, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(2)(A). Johnson now appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered on that verdict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Pierre N. Leval, Judge. Johnson’s principal claim is that the district court’s charge improperly nullified the statutory affirmative defense contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(d) by requiring him to…
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