UNITED STATES v. LENCH

No. 86-1086.

806 F.2d 1443 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. Frank P. LENCH, Defendant/Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion L. Jetton, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff/appellee.

Richard Haas, Moses Lasky, Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant/appellant.

Before WRIGHT, SNEED and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

Frank P. Lench was convicted of obstructing justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503 (1984), by concealing information subpoenaed by two grand juries. He was sentenced to two years in prison. Lench attacks his conviction on many grounds, among them that his conduct was not proscribed by section 1503, that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction and that there was an impermissible variance between indictment and proof...

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