Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE WHITE, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN and JUSTICE MARSHALL join, dissenting.
Before 1982, 18 U.S.C. § 1503 (1976 ed.) prohibited influencing or intimidating "any witness, in any court of the United States," or any juror or court officer in the discharge of his or her duty. The section also contained a residual clause forbidding anyone to obstruct or attempt to obstruct the "due administration of justice." In 1982, Congress amended...
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