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1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights |
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(1)
Preventing officer from performing duties
If two or more persons in any State or Territory
conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from
accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under
the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce
by like means any officer of the United States to leave any State,
district, or place, where his duties as an officer are required to be
performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his
lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the
lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest,
interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official
duties;
(2)
Obstructing justice; intimidating party, witness, or juror
If two or more persons in any State or Territory
conspire to deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or
witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or
from testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and
truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or
property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to
influence the verdict, presentment, or indictment of any grand or petit
juror in any such court, or to injure such juror in his person or
property on account of any verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully
assented to by him, or of his being or having been such juror; or if
two or more persons conspire for the purpose of impeding, hindering,
obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of justice in
any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen the equal
protection of the laws, or to injure him or his property for lawfully
enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or class
of persons, to the equal protection of the laws;
(3)
Depriving persons of rights or privileges
If two or more persons in any State or Territory
conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of
another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly,
any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or
of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose
of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or
Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or
Territory the equal protection of the laws; or if two or more persons
conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who
is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a
legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully
qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a
Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in
person or property on account of such support or advocacy; in any case
of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons engaged
therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object
of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or
property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege
of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may
have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or
deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.
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