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United States Code: Title 42,1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights I LII / Legal In... Page 1 of 1
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<br /> TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 21 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 1985
<br /> § 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights
<br /> (1) Preventing officer from performing duties
<br /> If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding
<br /> any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by Tike means any
<br /> 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
<br /> 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
<br /> injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties;
<br /> (2) Obstructing justice; intimidating party, witness, or juror
<br /> 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
<br /> United States from attending such court, or from testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and truthfully, or to injure such party
<br /> or witness in his person or property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to influence the verdict, presentment, or indictment
<br /> 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
<br /> 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
<br /> impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any
<br /> citizen the equal protection of the Taws, or to injure him or his property for lawfully enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any
<br /> person, or class of persons, to the equal protection of the laws;
<br /> (3) Depriving persons of rights or privileges
<br /> 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
<br /> depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and
<br /> immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or
<br /> 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,
<br /> 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
<br /> 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;
<br /> 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
<br /> 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
<br /> 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
<br /> injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of
<br /> the conspirators.
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