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Story by [email protected] (Geoff Weiss)
06-28-24
- The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a statute used against the January 6 attackers was applied too broadly.
- It was great news for Trump, legal experts told BI.
- The DOJ noted the decision would most impact “a narrow band” of January 6 cases.
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the obstruction statute used to prosecute the January 6, 2021, defendants was employed too broadly by the Department of Justice.
The obstruction charge doesn’t apply to anyone who breached the Capital, SCOTUS said.
Rather, to meet obstruction, “the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects…or other things used in the proceeding,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s decision.
Legal experts told Business Insider the decision was great news for Trump and could result in resentencing for certain January 6 defendants.
Read the full article here: Donald Trump could be in for a ‘huge windfall’ after the Supreme Court narrowed charges against January 6 rioters (msn.com)
