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Brandon Fellows

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Brandon Fellows is a Schenectady, New York tradesman — a chimney repairman and tree cutter who climbs for a living and who stood up in federal court and defended himself. Start with the work. Before January 6, Brandon Fellows earned his living as a tree cutter and a chimney sweep in New York's Capital Region. Federal court records identified him by that trade. (FACT — WUSA9; Law & Crime.) That is not a small thing. Chimney and tree work is skilled, physical, dangerous, weather-exposed labor. It is the kind of trade a man builds a customer base in one roof at a time. Then there is the part almost nobody in the January 6 cases attempted: Fellows represented himself pro se at his own federal jury trial in Washington, D.C. Whatever anyone thinks of that decision, standing at counsel table alone against the United States Attorney's Office takes a spine. (FACT — WUSA9.) THE LEGAL FIGHT Brandon Fellows was arrested January 17, 2021, and arrested again June 15, 2021 on release-condition issues; he was thereafter detained pretrial. He was convicted by a jury in August 2023 of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanors, and sentenced to 42 months — a figure that included five months on a separate contempt of court count. (FACT — WUSA9; Law & Crime; DOJ.) Charges are charges, and the archive does not restate them as anything more. The January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation granted pardons and commutations for offenses relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: the archive has not yet independently verified Brandon Fellows's individual clemency status on the Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate-recipient list, nor the post-Fischer treatment of the 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) count. If you have those documents, we want them. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-83, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested January 17, 2021. DOJ defendant page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/fellows-brandon This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.