The Supreme Court’s ruling that the federal government should not have used an accounting law to charge Joseph Fischer with obstruction of an official proceeding for briefly entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will affect prosecutions involving other Jan. 6 defendants, lawyers told The Epoch Times.
Lawyers said those defendants who have not yet been convicted or whose appeals have not yet been exhausted may do better in court in light of the new ruling than those who have already been sentenced under the obstruction law. The government said that all Jan. 6 defendants charged with obstruction were also charged with other offenses.
