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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]
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.
The Protecting Our Supreme Court Justices Act would amend Section 1507 of U.S. Code to increase the mandatory minimum prison sentence from one year to five years for those charged with obstruction ...
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.
The court found that the Justice Department improperly used a law passed in the wake of energy firm Enron Corp's collapse when it charged defendant Joseph Fischer with corruptly obstructing an ...
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against participants of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Process crimes are the offenses that "interfere with the procedures and administration of justice". [2] They are prosecuted because they are considered to harm the public interest in the functioning and integrity of the judicial system. [2] There is a broad range of process crimes, covered in the U.S. by a variety of federal and state laws.
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.