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Annie Howell
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageAnnie Howell is a mother from Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, coal-country stock, and hers is one of the most honest rebuilding stories to come out of January 6. FACT: she pleaded guilty on December 2, 2021 to a single count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. FACT: on March 2, 2022 she was sentenced to 36 months of probation with 60 days of intermittent confinement, served in ten-day increments at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, plus 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution. What came after is the real story. Annie Howell lost her job and her home. She kept going anyway. FACT: her fight to rebuild, hours spent studying in the public library, holding her family together, is documented in the Pulitzer Center-supported film Public Defender by director Andrea Kalin. FACT: the Pulitzer Center has featured her journey, including her use of knowledge as rehabilitation and her growing interest in prison reform. FACT: on January 20, 2025, she was pardoned under the presidential clemency proclamation covering January 6 cases. THEIR ACCOUNT: Annie Howell accepted the pardon while speaking openly about her regret, owning her past and claiming her future at the same time. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-217, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Guilty plea to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building; probation with intermittent confinement, completed. Pardoned January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-217
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 3/9. Indicted 3/12/21. Initial appearance held 3/17/21. Arraigned 4/7/21 and pleaded not guilty to counts 1-5. Plea agreement entered 12/2/2021 and pleaded guilty to count 2. Sentenced 3/2/22 to 36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service, $500 in restitution.
- Plea
- December 2, 2021
- Sentenced
- March 2, 2022
Charges
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Sentence
36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service, $500 in restitution
Press & news
- https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/i-feel-betrayed-woman-sentenced-for-jan-6-breach-claims-she-was-promised-white-house-job-gets-jail-time-instead/ →
- https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-story-life-after-prison-trumps-pardon-and-road-reform →
- https://pulitzercenter.org/people/annie-howell →
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/ →
- https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/luzerne-county-woman-goes-to-court-for-role-in-capitol-riot-annie-howell/523-6c61ed31-96da-47b0-9c88-99ef2196b673 →
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