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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.
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 Supreme Court weighs whether Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, ... about the Justice Department's use of an obstruction statute to charge those involved in ...
In March 2022, District Judge Carl J. Nichols dismissed obstruction charges against three January 6 defendants, including Fischer, ruling that prosecutors had improperly separated the portion of the law forbidding obstruction of an official proceeding from the aforementioned evidence-tampering provision regarding actions against a "document ...
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 ...
That law makes it a felony to “corruptly” alter, destroy or mutilate a record with the intent of making it unavailable for use in an “official proceeding,” or to “otherwise” obstruct ...
Federal: Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; Obstruction of an official proceeding; Interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder; Conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties; Seditious conspiracy [182] Not guilty [183] 8.5 years in prison [182] Member of Oath Keepers. One of the three who were ...
United States federal obstruction of justice case law ... Obstructing an official proceeding This page was last edited on 17 June 2019, at 18:19 (UTC). Text ...