I. Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles (Mueller Report)
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Dan Williams
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🗓️ 4 May 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This section explains the basic elements that are common to most of the relevant obstruction statutes and provides definitions relevant to events discussed in Section II relating to potential issues of obstruction of justice. This episode covers the "Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles," pages 9 to 14, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."
Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles (0:27)
- Legal Framework of Obstruction of Justice (0:32)
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- Obstructive act (2:01)
- Nexus to a pending or contemplated official proceeding (2:36)
- Corruptly (4:24)
- Witness tampering (4:43)
- Attempts and endeavors (6:14)
- Investigative and Evidentiary Considerations (7:20)
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| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the Mueller Report audio. |
| 0:22.9 | A quick note before we get started, this section contains references to sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, portions of the Justice Manual, and legal cases. |
| 0:32.4 | I'll be skipping over those references and reading only the text around some of the legal framework, |
| 0:37.1 | in hopes to help |
| 0:37.7 | make this section a little more pleasant to listen to. |
| 0:42.7 | Section 1. |
| 0:43.9 | Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles. |
| 0:47.5 | Section 1A. |
| 0:48.9 | Legal Framework of Obstruction of Justice. |
| 0:52.0 | The May 17-2017 appointment order, and the special counsel regulations |
| 0:55.9 | provide this office with jurisdiction to investigate federal crimes committed in the course of, |
| 1:00.6 | and with intent to interfere with, the special counsel's investigation, such as perjury, |
| 1:05.2 | obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses. Because of that |
| 1:10.1 | description of our jurisdiction, we saw evidence for ouration of witnesses. Because of that description of our jurisdiction, |
| 1:11.8 | we saw evidence for our obstruction of justice investigation with the elements of obstruction |
| 1:16.3 | offenses in mind. Our evidentiary analysis is similarly focused on the elements of such offenses, |
| 1:22.5 | although we do not draw conclusions on the ultimate questions that govern a prosecutorial decision |
| 1:26.9 | under the principles of federal prosecution a prosecutorial decision under the principles |
| 1:28.0 | of federal prosecution. Here, we summarize the law interpreting the elements of potentially |
| 1:32.9 | relevant obstruction statutes in an ordinary case. This discussion does not address the unique |
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