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Obstructing an official proceeding was one of the charges in United States v. Joseph, a 2019 case where a Massachusetts state court judge and court officer helped a state court defendant evade a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent by allowing the defendant to leave a court hearing through a rear door of the courthouse. [15]
Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, 544 U.S. 696 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen's conviction of obstruction of justice in the fraudulent activities and subsequent collapse of Enron.
Obstruction of justice is an umbrella term covering a variety of specific crimes. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines it as any "interference with the orderly administration of law and justice". [2] Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime, [3] a public-order crime, [4] [5] or a white-collar crime. [6]
BOSTON – A former Quincy resident has been extradited from Sweden to face charges in Boston federal court for what authorities said was his obstruction of an investigation into fires set at ...
According to Reuters, the high court's ruling could affect nearly 250 people who have been charged or convicted with obstruction in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots that occurred as the votes ...
A press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia says that Onyema, 61, was charged with "submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an ...
Kevin James Lyons (born 1980) is an American convicted felon who stole a photograph of Congressman John Lewis from house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office as he participated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, for which he was found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding and theft. On July 14, 2023, Lyons was sentenced to 51 months ...
The Supreme Court on Friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 6-3 that ...