Supreme Court might drop Jan. 6 obstruction charges. How it affects Sacramento defendants

Capitol rioters could obtain reduced prison sentences depending if the U.S. Supreme Court decides that federal prosecutors should not have charged defendants under a certain federal law in connection to disrupting the certification of 2020 election results. Three Sacramento-area defendants have been convicted on the felony charge at the center of the arguments, obstructing an official proceeding. One of the Sacramento-area rioters is also serving time for impeding police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced Congress...