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Charles R. Walters

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Charles R. Walters is a 37-year-old man from Sparta, Wisconsin. Before this case, before the headlines, he was a Sparta neighbor going about his life in a small western Wisconsin town. Federal prosecutors say that on January 6, 2021, Charles Walters was in the crowd on the West Front of the Capitol and charged him with entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and destruction of government property. He was arrested September 27, 2023, more than two and a half years after that day. Here is the record, plain, not softened. Charles Walters pleaded guilty to one count: entering or remaining in a restricted building. He pleaded not guilty to the rest. On September 17, 2024, a judge found him guilty at a bench trial on the destruction of government property count. The government agreed to dismiss the remaining counts at sentencing. Then everything changed. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation of clemency covering January 6 defendants. On January 22, 2025, before sentencing was carried out, the court granted the government's motion to dismiss Charles Walters's entire case with prejudice. The plea, the bench trial finding, all of it closed out by executive clemency before a sentence was ever imposed. FACT, sourced to the federal docket: no sentence was imposed. The case is closed, permanently, and cannot be reopened. Ryan Nichols has lived this. Charged. Jailed. Sentenced. Pardoned January 20, 2025. This is the record, not a headline. Same country, same clemency, case by case. Release the bodycam. Show me the evidence. CASE RECORD Name: Charles R. Walters Location: Sparta, Wisconsin Age: 37 Arrest date: September 27, 2023 Charges: Entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct; parading in the Capitol; destruction of government property Case status: Pleaded guilty to one count. Found guilty at bench trial on one additional count September 17, 2024. Case dismissed with prejudice January 22, 2025, before sentencing, following the January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.