Elsie Law's Daily Dose Of The Law

According to Black's Law Dictionary, "obstructing justice" is "impeding or obstructing those who seek justice in a court, or those who have duties or powers of administering justice therein. The act by which one or more persons attempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process. The term applies also to obstructing the administration of justice in any way- as hindering witnesses from appearing, assaulting process server, influencing jurors, obstructing court orders or criminal investigations.

Any act, conduct, or directing agency pertaining to pending proceedings, intended to play on human frailty and to deflect and deter court from performance of its duty and drive it into compromise with its own unfettered judgment by placing it, through medium of knowingly false assertion, in wrong position before public, constitutes an obstruction to administration of justice."