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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 372                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 19 - CONSPIRACY

HEAD

    Sec. 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer

STATUTE

      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

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 107-273, div. B,
    title IV, Sec. 4002(d)(1)(D), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1809.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 54 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 21, 35 Stat. 1092).
      Scope of section was enlarged to cover all possessions of the
    United States. When the section was first enacted in 1861 there
    were no possessions, and hence the use of the words "State or
    Territory" was sufficient to describe the area then subject to the
    jurisdiction of the United States. The word "District" was inserted
    by the codifiers of the 1909 Criminal Code.
                                AMENDMENTS
      2002 - Pub. L. 107-273 substituted "under this title" for "not
    more than $5,000".