Lynn男子Charlie Vick被判试图干扰证人罪成：羁押期间多次发信劝证人不要出庭，还提出付钱让其躲开审判
波士顿——马萨诸塞州 Lynn 市男子 Charlie Vick（37岁）在五天陪审团审理后，被判一项试图干扰证人罪成，量刑日期尚未排定。司法部马萨诸塞区联邦检察官办公室10月26日宣布了这一裁决。Vick于2024年3月被联邦大陪审团以一项重罪前科者持有枪支与一项干扰证人起诉；陪审团对持枪一项未能达成一致裁决，该项出现悬而未决陪审团（hung jury）。
案件源于2023年4月的一起持枪起诉：警方称在 Uxbridge 一辆由 Vick 驾驶的汽车内发现枪支，Vick 以重罪前科者持有枪支被起诉。案件原定2024年1月在位于 Worcester 的联邦地区法院开审，检方计划传唤一名重要证人（法庭文件中称 Person 1）出庭作证。
司法部称，Vick 在 Donald W. Wyatt 拘留所等待审理期间多次给该证人发信息，劝其不要出庭指证。2023年11月12日，他发信问对方是否会配合政府出庭；两天后他又称，检方需要证人证明车里查获的枪支就是照片中那把枪，没有证人证词检方就「没有案子」；他还写道，开庭那一周证人需要「找个地方待着」，并恳求对方不要出庭作证。2023年12月28日，他进而提出可以付钱让证人躲开审判，并让对方收拾行李去另一人处住两天。
试图干扰证人罪最高可判20年监禁、刑后最多3年监管释放与最高25万美元罚款，实际刑期由联邦地区法官依据量刑指南与相关法律裁定。联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley 与烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局（ATF）波士顿外勤分局特别探员主管 Thomas A. Greco 宣布了裁决；马萨诸塞州州警提供协助，助理联邦检察官 Brendan O'Shea 与 Zachary Stendig 由该办公室 Worcester 分部负责起诉。
Lynn Man Charlie Vick Convicted of Attempted Witness Tampering: Messaged Witness From Custody Urging Him Not to Testify and Offered to Pay Him to Stay Away
Boston – Charlie Vick, 37, of Lynn, Massachusetts, has been convicted following a five-day jury trial of one count of attempted witness tampering, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced on October 26. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2024 on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of witness tampering; the jury could not reach a unanimous decision on the felon-in-possession count, resulting in a hung jury on that count.
The case began in April 2023, when Vick was indicted for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after police allegedly found a firearm in a car he had been driving in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. His trial was scheduled for January 2024 in U.S. District Court in Worcester, and the government planned to call a material witness, identified in court proceedings as Person 1, to testify.
According to the Justice Department, while Vick was at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility awaiting trial, he repeatedly messaged Person 1 urging him not to testify. On November 12, 2023, he asked whether Person 1 was going to work with the government at trial; two days later he wrote that prosecutors needed the witness to testify that the gun found in the car was the gun from a picture, and that without that testimony they had no case. He also wrote that the witness needed to be somewhere away during the trial week and pleaded with him not to testify. On December 28, 2023, he offered to pay the witness to stay away and told him to pack a bag and stay with another person for two days.
The charge of attempted witness tampering provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000, with the actual sentence imposed by a federal district court judge based on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and governing statutes. United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Thomas A. Greco, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Boston Field Division, announced the verdict. The Massachusetts State Police provided assistance, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brendan O'Shea and Zachary Stendig of the office's Worcester Branch Office are prosecuting the case.
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图片来源：图：位于马萨诸塞州 Worcester 的 Harold D. Donohue 联邦大楼与联邦法院，本案原定在此开审、检方由联邦检察官办公室 Worcester 分部起诉（资料图）。图片：Kenneth C. Zirkel，CC BY-SA 4.0（Wikimedia Commons）。Photo: The Harold D. Donohue Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the case was set for trial and is prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office Worcester Branch (file photo). Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
