United States First Circuit

District court's conviction of defendant for assaulting a federal officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 111(a) is affirmed as a rational factfinder could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer was acting within the scope of her official duties for the purposes of the statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/25/2009
• Published 09/25/2009

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before HOWARD, RIPPLE and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard L. Hartley, with whom Law Office of Richard Hartley was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Renèe M. Bunker, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Paul D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.