United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction of one count of obstruction of justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 1503, arising from his testimony before a grand jury investigating whether the proceeds of the sales of performance enhancing drugs were being laundered, is affirmed, where: 1) section 1503 applies to factually true statements that are evasive or misleading; 2) there was sufficient evidence to convict defendant because his statement describing his life as a celebrity child, in response to a question asking whether his trainer ever gave him any self-injectable substances, was evasive, misleading, and capable of influencing the grand jury to minimize the trainer’s role in the distribution of performance enhancing drugs, and 3) defendant's remaining challenges fail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2013
• Published 09/13/2013

Judges

• SCHROEDER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

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