UNITED STATES v. FAUDMAN

No. 78-5209.

640 F.2d 20 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arnold FAUDMAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil H. Fink, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant.

James K. Robinson, U. S. Atty., Martin Reisig, Alan Gershel, Asst. U. S. Attys., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WEICK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges, and SPIEGEL, District Judge.


LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether 18 U.S.C. § 1503 (1976),1 an obstruction of justice statute, may be the basis for prosecuting a person who alters or destroys corporate records with knowledge that the records are being sought by a grand jury investigating the company's activities.

The defendant admitted altering and defacing records of the Borman Company at a time when a federal grand jury was...

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