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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 most high-profile defendant facing charges of obstructing an official proceeding is former President Trump. Special Counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting Trump in Washington for his efforts to ...
Most recently, Jan. 6 defendant Benjamin Martin was convicted on Wednesday of obstruction of an official proceeding, but he was also convicted of felony civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trump's attorneys have argued that the obstruction of an official proceeding statute should no longer apply to Trump's alleged conduct in the indictment against him, arguing that Trump was never ...