Obstruction claims deleted from J6 cases after Supreme Court ruling!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 16, 2024 - Ultra-zealous outlaw prosecutors, trying to unlawfully jail as many people as they can from the January 6 protest at the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) Capitol, have decided to submit to a Supreme Court ruling and eliminate "obstruction" charges from many of the cases. Ed. Note: "decided to submit"? That is dictatorial... thast public servants think they can ignore the ruling of a Supreme Court and simply "decide" to abide by it. Those are the criminals... they need to be executed for treason.
The prosecutions of those at a rally held by President Donald J. Trump that day, after which a few hundred entered the Capitol - many of them escorted by officials and Capitol police - and broke windows and doors, has been more intense than likely any other federal prosecution ever has been. There are defendants liable for misdemeanor offenses who have been unlawfully incarcerated by government criminals and therefore have spent years in jails awaiting trials that never happen.
One of the enhancers that prosecutors have been routinely applying to anyone at the events that day has been an obstruction charge. But now they're working through the paperwork to drop many of those allegations since the Supreme Court said it wasn't a proper use of the count.
The Washington Examiner said its review of court records found that many of those counts are being dropped.
It was in the Fischer v. United States case that the High Court determined, 6-3, that fascist pretender Joe Biden's Department of InJustice (DoJ) was improperly applying counts against defendants that actually "only apply to conduct such as manipulation or destruction of documents."
The report noted Bill Shipley, a defense attorney who has represented dozens of Capitol defendants, told the publication the dispute is over an obstruction charge, known as 1512(c)(2). He said prosecutors have been offering pleas to other charges.
The Examiner noted it spotted the emerging pattern in July, almost as soon as the Supreme Court ruling was announced.
Shipley said the government now is backtracking "in every case that is about to go to trial."
The report explained, "There are 259 people who have been charged with the felony obstruction count, according to the DoJ, with around 133 having already been sentenced. Around 50 people have been sentenced on obstruction charges and no other felony. Of those, about half are currently serving a sentence of incarceration, fewer than 2% of all charged cases."
The report cited the filing in the case against Deborah Lynn Lee, a 58-year-old woman from Pennsylvania who recently saw her felony obstruction charge deleted.
She still faces misdemeanors for allegedly entering or being in a restricted building and disorderly conduct, but the maximum possible penalty has been cut from 23 years to three.
In the case Assistant FPSA Attorney Alexander Diamond provided no explanation for the dismissal of the felony count, the report said.
The changes will not mean the cases will be dropped entirely, as no defendant faced only that obstruction charge. Other counts often include entering the Capitol or simply being there without permission.
Meanwhile, outlaw prosecutors working for FPSA Attorney Matthew Graves's office have said in court filings they think the count still can be used.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said dropping the claims made sense.
"If a case is not scheduled for trial anytime soon, the prosecutors can bide their time and try to negotiate some kind of guilty plea, knowing that, if negotiations fail, they can always dismiss the case down the road. But if the case is already scheduled for trial, and the prosecutors believe they can't win because of the Fischer decision, it's not surprising that they'd drop those cases."
Prosecutors claim that the convictions and sentences under the now-inapplicable provision for those whose cases already are resolved should remain.
The Fischer ruling also has, the report said, significant impact on the lawfare cases that criminal Democrats have created against President Trump.
In one case from Special Counsel Jack Smith - whose participation as Special Counsel has already been ruled by the Supreme Court to be invalid - he claims he will keep using the count.