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Cindy Lou Young

Pardoned January 6 defendant and pro se filer in post-judgment and related plaque litigation

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Cindy Lou Young is a Bristol, New Hampshire woman who took her January 6 case all the way to a jury trial, then to a pardon. FACT: Young was arrested June 23, 2023, on a warrant connected to January 6, more than two years after the fact. (NHPR; Boston Globe) FACT: She was convicted by a jury on four misdemeanor counts and was sentenced November 21, 2024, in Case No. 1:23-cr-00241, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She was one of a shrinking number of January 6 defendants who chose a jury trial over a plea deal. (CourtListener docket) NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: The exact prison, probation, and restitution terms of that sentence are not independently confirmed in the public reporting reviewed for this profile. A prior version of this page cited a specific sentence figure and an unrelated court docket in error; both have been removed. Ryan's review is requested before any specific sentence figure is republished here. FACT: President Trump issued a full pardon covering her January 6 offenses in January 2025. Young attended a vigil in New Hampshire on the eve of the pardons alongside other Trump supporters convicted for January 6 actions, confident the pardons were coming. (Boston Globe) THEIR ACCOUNT: New Hampshire Public Radio and the Union Leader reported on her arrest and New Hampshire ties when her case was filed in 2023. WHERE THINGS STAND: A jury conviction on four misdemeanors, and a full pardon. She went home to Bristol, New Hampshire. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:23-cr-00241, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested June 23, 2023. Jury convicted on four misdemeanor counts. Sentenced November 21, 2024. Pardoned January 2025. Unlike most January 6 defendants in this archive, Young did not take a plea deal. Her case went the distance to a jury, and the jury still found her guilty on all four misdemeanor counts charged. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.

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docket · Jul 8, 2026

Dunn v. Austin — June–July 2026 Appellate and Unsealing Docket Update

Public docket metadata records a D.C. Circuit order dismissing a petition for writ of mandamus in No. 26-5076 and a later Cindy Lou Young request for leave to file with an attached motion to unseal. The native filings remain pending, so this record reports docket metadata only and does not infer the papers’ uncaptured arguments.

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ruling · Mar 30, 2026

Dunn v. Austin — Opinion Denying Brian Mock and Cindy Young Intervention

An 11-page March 30, 2026 memorandum opinion in Dunn v. Austin denied Brian Mock’s and Cindy Lou Young’s motions to intervene in litigation concerning the congressionally directed January 6 law-enforcement plaque. The ruling addressed standing and permissive intervention; it did not decide the truth or falsity of their broader firsthand claims about January 6, detention, stigma, public history, or government conduct.

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ruling · Mar 30, 2026

Dunn v. Austin opinion denying Brian Mock and Cindy Young intervention

Judge Dabney L. Friedrich denied Brian Mock’s and Cindy Lou Young’s motions to intervene in litigation over a January 6 officer plaque, holding that they lacked standing and declining permissive intervention under Rule 24.

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order · Aug 29, 2025

United States v. Cindy Young — Order requiring renewed briefing on sealed filings

Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey ordered renewed sealed briefing concerning whether ECF Nos. 63 and 64 should remain sealed. The order recounts the conviction, sentencing, judgment, and later pardon but does not decide the ultimate unsealing question.

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