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18 U.S.C. § 1506 — Theft or alteration of record or process; false bail
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Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, falsifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process, or other proceeding, in any court of the United States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made void, or does not take effect; or
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Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, falsifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process, or other proceeding, in any court of the United States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made void, or does not take effect; or
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**(a)** Whoever corruptly, or 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 the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly 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 punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.
**(b)** The punishment for an offense under this section is—
(1) in the case of a killing, the punishment provided in sections 1111 and 1112;
(2) in the case of an attempted killing, or a case in which the offense was committed against a petit juror and in which a class A or B felony was charged, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both; and
(3) in any other case, imprisonment f
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1506
willful removal, concealment, destruction, mutilation,
alteration or falsification of documents which were the
subject of a demand under the Antitrust Civil Process
Act if done with the intent to prevent compliance with
a civil investigative demand.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1982 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–291 effective Oct. 12, 1982,
see section 9(a) of Pub. L. 97–291, set out as an Effective
Date note under section 1512 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 94–435 effective Sept. 30, 1976,
see section 106 of Pub. L. 94–435, set out as a note under
section 1311 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
§ 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process;
false bail
Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters,
falsifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ,
process, or other proceeding, in any court of the
United States, whereby any judgment is re-
versed, made void, or does not take effect; or
Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be ac-
knowledged in any such court, any recog-
nizance, bail, or judgment, in the name of any
other person not privy or consenting to the
same—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770; Pub. L.
103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 233 (Mar. 4, 1909,
ch. 321, § 127, 35 Stat. 1111).
The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to 5
years, to conform the punishment with like ones for
similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.)
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1994—Pub. L. 103–3
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