When people ask me how I knew to hedge the 1512..
By Ryan Nichols
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Pages of the McBride & Gross - authored, "Motion to Dismiss Count Two (18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2))" arguing the obstruction statute is a misapplied Sarbanes-Oxley document-tampering provision.
Filed 8/12/2022 in case 1:21-cr-00117-TFH.
Notable: this is the same legal challenge the Supreme Court later substantially adopted in Fischer v. United States, June 2024 — meaning Ryan's defense was right two years before SCOTUS confirmed it.
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