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Obstruction of justice - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Arrest, Arrestment, Bar, Block, Blockade, Blocking, Bottleneck, Catch, Cecum, Check, Checking, Choking, Clog, Closure, Congestion |
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Obstruction of justice, in a common law state, refers to the crime of offering interference of any sort to the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other (usually government) officials. Often, no actual investigation or substantiated suspicion of a specific incident need exist to support a charge of obstruction of justice.
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