Pettibone v. United States

Pettibone v. United States, 148 U.S. 197 (1893), is a United States Supreme Court criminal case involving the knowledge requirement in an obstruction of justice case.[1][2]^:1022 It was the first Supreme Court case involving interpretation of obstruction of justice statutes (currently United States Code Section 1503).[2]^:1022 Chief Justice Fuller wrote, "a person is not sufficiently charged with obstructing or impeding the due administration of justice in a court unless it appears that he knew of had notice that justice was being administered in such court".[2]^:1022

Pettibone v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 1–2, 1893 Decided March 6, 1893
Full case name	Pettibone v. United States
Citations	148 U.S. 197 (more) 13 S. Ct. 542; 37 L. Ed. 419; 1893 U.S. LEXIS 2223
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown George Shiras Jr. · Howell E. Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Fuller, joined by Field, Harlan, Gray, Blatchford, Shiras, Jackson
Dissent	Brewer, joined by Brown

References

1. Pettibone v. United States, 148 U.S. 197 (1893).  This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document.
2. Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,

External links

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