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Fischer previously served as a police officer in North Cornwall Township, Pennsylvania. (Another man named Joseph Fisher, who was also a police officer, was recently sentenced to 20 months in ...
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a former police officer Joseph Fischer charged with obstruction when he participated in the Capitol riots on Jan 6, 2021. Fischer, who is from Pennsylvania ...
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that an “obstruction of an official proceeding” charge brought against Joseph Fischer, a former police officer and January 6 rioter, was too broad (Getty Images)
The former police officer charged in the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 returns to court on Wednesday for the first time since convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to raise the legal bar on ...
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 .
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling which ruled in favor of defendant Joseph Fischer and found that a section of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act could not to be used to bring obstruction charges against the January 6 defendants. [378] Soon after the ruling, more January 6 prosecution cases would be reopened. [379]
Fischer, at the time a member of the North Cornwall Township police in Pennsylvania, got inside and pressed up against an officer's riot shield as police attempted to clear rioters.
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