U.S. v. Rucker

Record contained sufficient evidence to support guilty verdict on charge of witness retaliation, where record showed that: (1) eight days after individual testified against defendant at defendant’s sentencing hearing, defendant had words with said individual in County jail; (2) defendant waited until guards left area and then slammed individual’s head into concrete wall, causing said individual to convulse; and (3) defendant lied to guard about cause of individual’s injuries. While defendant argued that govt. failed to show that instant attack was motivated by individual’s testimony at sentencing hearing, record showed that defendant made remark to individual about individual’s status as govt. cooperating witness shortly before attack.