Supreme Court Considering a Case That
Might Upend Hundreds of January 6 Prosecutions
PJ Media,
by
Rick Moran
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/13/2023 3:19:01 PM
Prosecutorial overreach is not uncommon in high-profile cases. The prosecutors pile on the charges to frighten defendants with the prospect of long prison terms so they plead out. The state also hopes to throw enough charges against the wall to see what sticks.But the danger of overreach is that a judge may want to smack a prosecutor down for bringing unnecessary charges. Such is the case in the January 6 prosecutions.
One of the rioters, Edward Lang, is facing 11 charges and pleaded not guilty to all of them. But a district court judge threw out the charges relating to “obstruction of an official proceeding” concerning Lang
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/13/2023 3:39:55 PM (No. 1512006)
IF...this is allowed to be used, Charges MUST be brought against Nancy Pelosi, for tearing up a Govt Document, part of American history, belonging rightfully in the National Archives, and doing it willfully and corruptly in the Capitol Bldg. An ORIGINAL...not a copy.
The video is available and was seen in REAL TIME on every single News outlet, as it happened.
"20 YEARS is the sentence"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/13/2023 3:42:43 PM (No. 1512009)
I would certainly hope the SC would weigh in on the absolutely illegal detainment of defendants for over two years! Also being disallowed legal counsel during much of their early internment. This is "Guantanamo DC."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyVet 7/13/2023 10:29:23 PM (No. 1512222)
Since lawyers are considered to be officers of the court, they should be held responsible when their actions are ruled to be in violation of the constitution. They should, at a minimum, have their licenses suspended . An egregiously wrong prosecution should get them disbarred permanently and prosecuted for violation of individual rights.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/14/2023 6:45:42 AM (No. 1512332)
This is third world, banana republic behavior at it's finest. The US Government has not acted in an above board, legal or honorable manner since the day that Barack Obama, the silver-tongued devil, showed up in Washington. People were made political prisoners over a big government lie and the best president in United States history has been harassed by rogue government agencies since 2016. It has to end.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 7/14/2023 7:52:46 AM (No. 1512381)
I cannot imagine that the U.S. Congress ever considered the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to apply to this type of activity. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted to curb the perceived abuses arising from the Enron (and other) financial scandals. It was intended as a financial reform measure, by limiting the ability of boards of directors and officers of entities to dodge wrongdoing by those entities. To extend the Act to demonstrators is a bridge too far. The prosecutors need to be put in their places, and our Justice Department needs to soberly reform its blatantly partisan activities.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena 7/14/2023 7:54:57 AM (No. 1512383)
This law is entitled "Tampering with a witness, victim or informant." Shouldn't it be read in that context? Criminal laws have to be completely clear as to the offense someone is charged with. There was no attempt at witness tampering on Jan. 6.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/14/2023 10:39:01 AM (No. 1512561)
The house of rat cards is starting to fall....no wonder they are desperate to stop President Trump...he holds the key to a clean sweep of Washington...and they know it...no more back room deals for the rats...it's all coming out thanks to the House members.....keep it up.....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/14/2023 11:10:15 AM (No. 1512581)
Sarbanes-Oxley sentences a guilty party to up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document,” or “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.”
If it were applied properly, Wray, Garland, and dozens of others would be in the gray bar hotel, not the Jan 6th victims.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 7/14/2023 11:53:04 AM (No. 1512619)
The far left appears to be oblivious to the old saying, "What goes around comes around." Someday, there will be another conservative Republican President (hopefully sooner rather than later) and all of the precedents now being set by the Biden regime will come back to haunt them.
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I am wondering if this story today is why they just might be throwing one of the brazen organizers named Epps under the bus. I hope Karma bites him hard for he deserves it.
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