He also testified that he had no intention of obstructing the delivery of justice or misbehaving himself so as to obstruct the administration of justice.
The fourth and last degree of participation is that of accessory after the fact, who is punishable for receiving, concealing, or comforting one whom that person knows to have committed a crime so as to obstruct the criminal's apprehension or to otherwise obstruct justice.
In the summer of 1918, U.S. minelayers laid more than 60,000 mines (13,000 of them British) in a wide belt across 180 miles of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, so as to obstruct the U-boats' only access from Germany to the Atlantic other than the closely guarded Channel.
The phrase, "in the presence of the Court or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice," was interpreted so broadly in Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United States210 as to uphold the action of a district court judge in punishing a newspaper for contempt for publishing spirited editorials and cartoons issues raised in an action challenging a street railway's rates.
The question then arises whether the facts recited in the final order in the district court as constituting the contempt which facts must be taken in this collateral proceeding to be true make a case of misbehavior in the presence of that court, or misbehavior so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice therein.
The act of 1831, however, materially modified that of 1789, in that it restricted the power of the courts to inflict summary punishments for contempt to certain specified cases, among which was misbehavior in the presence of the court, or misbehavior so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.
But the statute does not make that mode exclusive, if the offense is committed under such circumstances as to bring it within the power of the court under section 725; when, for instance, the offender is guilty of misbehavior in its presence, or misbehavior so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.
The statute in force at the time of the alleged contempts confined the power of courts in cases of this sort to where there had been 'misbehavior of any person in their presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.' Section 268, Jud.
This section shall not apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States.
He had never been so wedded to his own theories as to seek to impose them upon others in such a manner as to obstruct the attainment of the truth.
2) On at least two major issues where the Hamiltonians make no concessions, their positions are wrong on the merits, so as to obstruct any good the project might otherwise do.
