Definitions for obstruction of justice
ob·struc·tion of jus·tice

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1. obstruction of justicenoun

   impeding those who seek justice in a court (as by trying to influence or intimidate any juror or witness or officer of the court); can result in a finding of contempt of court

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1. obstruction of justicenoun

   Intimidating or tampering with a witness or juror to influence their actions.

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1. Obstruction of justice

   Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is an act that involves unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the justice system, especially the legal and procedural tasks of prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice. Obstruction is a broad crime that may include acts such as perjury, making false statements to officials, witness tampering, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, and many others. Obstruction also applies to overt coercion of court or government officials via the means of threats or actual physical harm, and also applying to deliberate sedition against a court official to undermine the appearance of legitimate authority.

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1. obstruction of justice

   Obstruction of justice refers to any act that attempts to interfere with the proper functioning of the judicial system. This includes hindering or impeding the fair administration of justice in a criminal or civil legal proceeding such as disturbing an investigation, destroying or tampering with evidence, bribing a juror, or intimidating or lying to a witness, judge, or jury, among others. Such activities are considered crimes in themselves, regardless of the outcome of the proceeding they were attempting to influence.

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1. Obstruction of justice

   The crime of obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, refers to the crime of interfering with the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice. Generally, obstruction charges are laid when it is discovered that a person questioned in an investigation, other than a suspect, has lied to the investigating officers. However, in most common law jurisdictions, the right to remain silent allows any person questioned by police merely to refuse to answer questions posed by an investigator without giving any reason for doing so.. If the person tried to protect a suspect or to hide from investigation their own activities, this may leave them liable to prosecution. Obstruction charges can also be laid if a person alters or destroys physical evidence, even if he was under no compulsion at any time to produce such evidence. Often, no actual investigation or substantiated suspicion of a specific incident need exist to support a charge of obstruction of justice.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of obstruction of justice in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of obstruction of justice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of obstruction of justice in a Sentence

1. James Comey:

   The public comments, because they were widely broadcast, were ones that were apparent to the senior leadership team of the FBI, if I didn't tell the senior leadership team of the FBI about my conversation with President Trump, they wouldn't otherwise know and couldn't help me figure out what to do with what was potential obstruction of justice.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   They keep taking it to court and no, we're not going to wait until the courts decide, that might be information that's available to the Senate in terms of how far we go and when we go, but we can't wait for that because again it's a technique. It's obstruction of justice, obstruction of Congress, so we can not let their further obstruction of Congress be an impediment to our honoring our oath of office.

3. Devin Nunes:

   When Fox News ' comes to Republicans asking questions, I think what we need to do is stick to the facts of the case and not allow Mueller time to either pontificate and embellish all the time or embellish things that he may want to embellish, this investigation was not about collusion. It wasn't about obstruction of justice. It was about setting obstruction of justice traps so for the better part of two years they were hoping the President would fall into it.

4. Richard Blumenthal:

   It would very possibly be an obstruction of justice because he would be misusing that power to protect himself as a target of that investigation.

5. John Dean:

   I'm clearly not a fact witness, but I hope I can give them some context and show them how strikingly like Watergate what we're seeing now, and as reported in the Mueller report, is. So I've taken several examples from the Mueller report relating to obstruction of justice, which is their focus today and looked at those and made the comparisons.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=obstruction of justice
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_Justice
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_Justice
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=obstruction of justice