The Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. United States, which determined that the DOJ overreached in using.
An obstruction provision intended for financial crimes to prosecute defendants on January 6, affected over 250 of the defendants prosecuted under Graves.
In his ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the Government’s interpretation of Section 1512 would “intrude on that deliberate arrangement of constitutional authority.
Over federal crimes, giving prosecutors broad discretion to seek a 20-year maximum sentence for acts Congress saw fit to punish only with far shorter terms of imprisonment—for example,
Three years for harassment under §1512(d)(1), or ten years for threatening a juror under §1503.” Following the decision, the government decided it would not fight.
The dismissal of the charge in 54 instances that had already been determined and dropped the charge in 96 cases that were still pending. According to Grave’s office,
