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Torre had said that around 200 cases could be filed against individuals who allegedly concealed the suspects and resisted authorities during the operation, who may also face charges such as disobedience to a person in authority, direct assault, slander—all also under the RPC, and obstruction of justice under Presidential Decree 1829. [68]
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]
May 17 – John Jay, represented New York at the Continental Congress in 1774, 2nd Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801 and 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1795 (born 1745) June 27 – James Smithson , British chemist and mineralogist whose inheritance will eventually create the Smithsonian Institution (born c. 1765 ...
The obstruction charge — which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years for a person who corruptly “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object,” or ...
Modern policing began to emerge in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, influenced by the British model of policing established in 1829 based on the Peelian principles. [32] [40] The first organized, publicly funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, [41] New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.
The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Joseph Fischer – a former police officer and one of more than 300 people charged by the Justice Department with "obstruction of an official proceeding ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Justice Department overstepped by charging hundreds of people who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, with obstruction in a decision that could ...
James G. Watt, the Secretary of Interior from 1981 to 1983, was charged with 25 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, sentenced to five years' probation, fined $5,000 and 500 hours of community service.