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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]
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 agreed with Fischer and ordered lower courts in June to review obstruction cases to determine whether the charges covered records or documents used in official proceedings ...
According to Justice Department statistics, there were roughly 259 defendants facing the obstruction charge – a federal statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding – when ...
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.
The Supreme Court ruled that obstruction charges against participants of the Jan. 6, ... Hundreds of other insurrectionists have faced the same charge for impeding an official proceeding ...
About 259 Capitol riot defendants were charged with obstructing the congressional proceeding at the time of the Supreme Court ruling out of nearly 1,500 cases charged, according to the U.S ...