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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]
The Scottish equivalent is defeating the ends of justice, although charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice are also raised in Scotland, [1] while the South African counterpart is defeating or obstructing the course of justice. [2] A similar concept, obstruction of justice, exists in United States law.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion for the court, and was joined by all associate justices. In the court's view, the instructions allowed the jury to convict Andersen without proving that the firm knew it had broken the law or that there had been a link to any official proceeding that prohibited the destruction of documents.
Mar. 11—LIMA — A former Shawnee Township detective and one-time school resource officer at Apollo Career Center on Monday pleaded guilty to a Bill of Information charge of obstructing justice ...
President Trump's attempts to interfere with investigations were public, muddying the waters on an obstruction of justice case, experts say. Obstruction of Justice Usually Happens Behind Closed Doors.
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.
SPENCER — Jurors found 39-year-old Jay White guilty of murder and obstruction of justice after deliberating about two hours Wednesday. The guilty verdicts came on the seventh day of a trial in ...
Under the criminal law of Australia the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Commonwealth) abolished all common law offences at the federal level. [1] The Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia have also abolished common law offences, but they still apply in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.