United States v. Willie Goodwin, Jr.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction by a jury on a one-count indictment brought under 18 U.S.C. § 111. 1 The indictment charged that defendant did “knowingly, unlawfully and wilfully, forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate and interfere with [two named FBI agents], knowing them to be such Officers, who were then and there engaged in the performance of their official duties.”

We narrate the facts as the jury was entitled to find them. For more than three years, the Philadelphia office of the FBI had been seeking the defendant to arrest him on…