Whoever corruptly, maliciously, recklessly, by threats or force, or by any threatening
letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or
petit juror or officer in or of any court of this state or officer who may be serving
at any examination or other proceeding before any justice, magistrate, or other officer
of the court, in the discharge of his or her duty; or injures any party on his or
her person or property on account of his or her attending or having attended such
court or examination before such justice, magistrate, or other officer, or on account
of his or her testifying or having testified to any matter pending in it; or injures
any grand or petit juror in his or her person or property on account of any verdict
or indictment assented to by him or her, or on account of being or having been a juror,
or injures any justice, magistrate, or other officer in his or her person or property
on account of the performance of his or her official duties; or corruptly, maliciously,
recklessly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication,
influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede,
the due administration of justice; shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars
($5,000), or imprisoned not more than five (5) years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
6
cases, 1983–2013 · leading case:
State v. Pari, 546 A.2d 175 (R.I. 1988).
State v. Pari, 546 A.2d 175 (R.I. 1988).
· cites it 10× “1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-32-3. Count 19 charged Pari and Manning, along with several unin-dicted coconspirators, with conspiring to obstruct the due administration of justice in violation of G.”
State v. Acquisto, 463 A.2d 122 (R.I. 1983).
“1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-32-3, its independent relevance to prove a circumstance indicating consciousness of guilt on the part of the defendant causes it to be admissible in evidence.”
State v. D'amario, 725 A.2d 276 (R.I. 1999).
“1 On February 13,1996, a criminal infor *278 mation charged that defendant did “corruptly, maliciously, recklessly, by threat, by force, by a threatening letter anchor by a threatening communication endeavor to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice; in…”
Caribbean Int'l News Corp. v. Fuentes Agostini, 12 F. Supp. 2d 206 (D.P.R. 1998).
“by promises, persuasions, entreaties, threats, letters, money, entertainment or other sinister means_”); R.I.Gen.Laws § 11-32-3 (“Whoever corruptly, maliciously, recklessly, or by threats or force, or by any threatemng letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate,…”
State v. Demers, 576 A.2d 1221 (R.I. 1990).
· cites it 19× “1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-32-3 is applicable to obstruction in criminal proceedings and not in civil proceedings.”
In the Matter of Gerard H. Donley, 72 A.3d 872 (R.I. 2013).
· cites it 2× “On June 13, 2013, he was found guilty after trial by jury of the following felony criminal charges: count 1, obstruction of the judicial system, in violation of G.L. 1956 § 11-32-3; count 2, conspiracy, in violation of G.”
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