A federal judge on June 7 agreed to dismiss a charge against a defendant in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, threw out the charge that Edward Jacob Lang, the defendant, obstructed an official proceeding before Congress.
The charge carries up to 20 years in prison.
“I’m ecstatic,” Steven Metcalf, a lawyer for Lang, told The Epoch Times.
Metcalf had argued in a recent filing that the defendant’s actions did not meet the definition of the law that he allegedly violated.
The law prohibits interfering with an official proceeding through intimidation against a person or other means….