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In federal law, crimes constituting obstruction of justice are defined primarily in Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [7] [8] This chapter contains provisions covering various specific crimes such as witness tampering and retaliation, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, assault on a process server, and theft of court ...
Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to the Enron scandal, and closed a legal loophole on who could be charged with evidence tampering by defining the new crime very broadly.
However, as Painter and I have argued elsewhere, this may arguably constitute obstruction of justice under federal law, despite broad presidential power to remove members of the executive branch ...
Federal: Obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties; Tampering with documents or proceedings. [176] 4 years in prison [176] January 20, 2021 Tam Dinh Pham Federal: Parading ... in a Capitol Building Guilty 45 days in prison Was fired from his job as a Houston Police Department officer after ...
The department said more than 330 of the first 1,400 people charged in the Jan. 6 attack had faced the charge. Two of the four federal charges against Trump accusing him of obstructing an official ...
More than 330 of the initial 1,400 people charged in the January 6 attack on Congress were charged with obstruction. Out of the four federal charges Trump faces in his election interference, two ...
Fischer v. United States, 603 U.S. ___, was a United States Supreme Court case about the proper use of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, established in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, against participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Friday that federal prosecutors erred in how they charged a man for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol could affect 249 other cases ...