Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 111: Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

This statute prohibits forcibly assaulting, resisting, or interfering with certain officers or employees during their official duties. Violations involving deadly weapons or bodily injury are punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment.

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forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service, Whoever, in the commission of any acts described in subsection (a), uses a deadly or dangerous weapon (including a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily injury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. There is extraterritorial jurisdiction over the conduct prohibited by this section.

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