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18 Ιουν 2024 · Obstructing justice, also known as obstruction of justice, is a non-violent offence classified as an “offence against the administration of law and justice.” It criminalizes deliberate acts which seek to obstruct (or in other words interfere or hinder) the pursuit of justice.
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28 Ιουν 2024 · At issue in the case was the charge of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512 (c) (2). Joseph Fischer, an alleged Jan. 6 rioter, was indicted on seven charges, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512 (c) (2) in 2021. Fischer later filed a motion to dismiss several of the ...
28 Ιουν 2024 · The Supreme Court on Friday limited the power of prosecutors to pursue obstruction charges against those who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, narrowing a law that could have...
28 Ιουν 2024 · In finding that prosecutors misused an obstruction law to charge rioters, the justices highlighted the lack of an established legal blueprint for addressing an attack on the foundations of democracy.
28 Ιουν 2024 · By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the law that Joseph Fischer was charged with violating, which bars obstruction of an official proceeding, applies only to evidence tampering, such as destruction of records or documents, in official proceedings.
28 Ιουν 2024 · In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court agreed with the defendants and held that the statute prohibits only evidence tampering. It then sent the case back to the appeals ...
29 Ιουν 2024 · In a closely watched decision stemming from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the government must prove a defendant impaired or attempted to impair the availability or integrity of evidence to be convicted under a key obstruction statute.
