18 U.S.C. § 372 — Conspiracy to impede or injure officer
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 139 words · no verdicts yet
It's a federal crime for two or more people to conspire to stop someone from holding a U.S. government office by force or threats. It's also a crime to conspire to force an officer from their post or to injure them or their property for doing their job. Anyone convicted faces up to six years in prison, a fine, or both.
This section makes it a crime for two or more people, anywhere in a U.S. state, territory, possession, or district, to conspire together in certain ways against a federal officer. It covers a conspiracy that uses force, intimidation, or threats to: stop someone from accepting or holding a federal office, trust, or position of confidence; stop someone from carrying out the duties of that office; force a federal officer to leave the place where they are required to do their job; injure the officer personally or in their property because they lawfully did their job, or while they were doing it; or injure the officer's property in a way meant to molest, interrupt, hinder, or block them from doing their official duties. Anyone who takes part in such a conspiracy can be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to six years, or both.
If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4002(d)(1)(D), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1809.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 701
- 2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-273 · 116 Stat. 1809
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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