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Clay Norris

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Clay Norris is a Canton, Ohio man whose January 6 case ended with a full presidential pardon on January 20, 2025. He is an Ohioan from Stark County. This profile puts his story into the record on his own terms, not the DOJ press-release terms. The record, plainly: Clay Norris was arrested on federal charges tied to January 6, 2021 and pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement during a civil disorder. That is what he pleaded to. Nothing more, nothing less. CHARGE ONLY / DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: Federal prosecutors alleged that Norris used a bullhorn to urge the crowd near the Capitol perimeter. Those descriptions come from the government's charging papers and press release, not from a jury verdict on every allegation. The presumption of innocence attached to every count not admitted in the plea. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump granted a full pardon covering the January 6 prosecutions, Clay Norris of Canton, Ohio was among those covered. Case record: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. DOJ press release, local Ohio coverage from WKYC, FOX 8, and FOX 43, and the DOJ statement of facts are linked in this archive for anyone who wants to read the source material for themselves. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.