A Jan. 6 plaintiff was warned by the Department of Justice on Tuesday that regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling in a situation involving a act he was accused of violating, his phrase would not be reduced.
Jan. 6 accused Anthony Williams  , asked , the jury in February to give him bond pending his charm in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to get up , Fischer v. United States, which challenges the reach of an obstruction act used to command him, along with plenty of other Jan. 6 defendants.
The DOJ warned in a court , filing , Tuesday that in spite of the pending case—and an appeals court , ruling , finding it wrongly lengthened Jan. 6 sentences by applying an enhancement for interfering with the , “administration of justice” —it would increase its sentencing recommendation on the remaining counts to maintain the current sentence length.
The DOJ wrote that Williams however does not demonstrate that there is a reasonable chance that the goal of Fischer will result in a diminished sentence to a term of imprisonment less than the full time previously served plus the anticipated duration of the appeal process.
According to the DOJ,” the government’s sentencing recommendation likely would be different in the absence of a conviction for obstructing an official proceeding in violation of 18 U.S. C. 1512 ( c ) ( 2 ) and could request consecutive sentences to account for both the severity of Williams’s conduct and the aspects of his conduct and history that the Court originally determined warranted a sixty (60 ) month sentence.”
The government will request MORE time to respond to the flood of requests from J6ers serving time for 1512c2 in response to the obstruction charge pending before SCOTUS, DOJ, and DC US Atty. Matthew Graves. twitter.com/I9P0KbMz1E— Julie Kelly?? ( @julie_kelly2 ) March 20, 2024
The DOJ noted that the initial recommendation for consecutive sentences was that the range of sentences allowed by Williams ‘ obstruction charge “was sufficient to satisfy the purposes of sentencing.”
” The calculus on resentencing would necessarily change, and a reversal of the § 1512 ( c ) conviction could increase the aggregate sentence on the remaining counts”, the filing continues.
The Supreme Court made a decision to hear the Fischer case in December. The obstruction statute, Section 1512 ( c ) ( 2 ), threatens fines or up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding”.
” Hundreds of cases have been and will be affected by the scope of Section 1512 ( c ) ( 2 ), including a case against the former President“, Fischer ‘s , petition , to the Supreme Court argued. ” In addition, the use of Section 1512 ( c ) ( 2 ) outside evidence impairment crimes is an extraordinary and unprecedented extension of the statute’s reach”.
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