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Dominic Pezzola

January 6 defendant · convictions vacated and case dismissed with prejudice

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Dominic Pezzola is a United States Marine, a Rochester flooring contractor, a husband and a father of two daughters - and as of July 10, 2026, a man with no January 6 indictment against him at all. Dismissed with prejudice. Gone for good. Marine corporal. Small business owner. Girl dad. Exonerated defendant. That is the order to read it in. WHO HE IS FACT - Pezzola graduated from The Aquinas Institute of Rochester, New York in 1995. FACT - He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1998 to 2005, reaching the rank of corporal as an infantry assaultman (Vice; Wikipedia). Infantry assaultman is a rifle-company job - the men who carry the rockets and breach the obstacles. FACT - He owns and operates a flooring business in Rochester, New York, the business that supports his wife and children. FACT - He is the father of two daughters. This archive does not publish the names of anyone family members. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE - Seven years in the Marine infantry, then two decades on his knees installing floors in other people homes in upstate New York. Dominic Pezzola built a life with his hands twice. THE LEGAL FIGHT - AND HOW IT ENDED FACT - Pezzola was arrested January 15, 2021. FACT - At the 2023 trial, the jury ACQUITTED Dominic Pezzola of seditious conspiracy - the most serious charge the government brought. The jury said no. FACT - He was convicted on other counts and sentenced in 2023. FACT - On January 20, 2025 he was covered by the presidential January 6 clemency action, which commuted the sentences of a small named group of defendants, and he walked out of federal prison. FACT - On May 21, 2026 the judgments in his case were VACATED. FACT - On July 10, 2026 the indictment against Dominic Pezzola was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. With prejudice means the government can never charge him with it again. No conviction stands. Nothing is pending. It is over. Read that again, because almost no one in the January 6 docket got there. A jury acquitted him of the government headline charge, and then the courts vacated the rest and threw the indictment out for good. CASE RECORD Name: Dominic Pezzola Home: Rochester, Monroe County, New York Service: U.S. Marine Corps, 1998-2005, corporal, infantry assaultman Occupation: flooring contractor, small business owner Case number: 1:21-cr-175 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrest: January 15, 2021 Jury verdict: acquitted of seditious conspiracy, 2023 Clemency: sentence commuted, January 20, 2025 Judgments vacated: May 21, 2026 Indictment dismissed with prejudice: July 10, 2026 DOJ case page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/pezzola-dominic-aka-spaz-aka-spazzo-aka-spazzolini Search terms people use to find this page: Dominic Pezzola January 6, Dominic Pezzola case dismissed, Dominic Pezzola Marine veteran, Pezzola convictions vacated 2026, Rochester New York January 6 defendant, J6 political prisoner released. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you - or your family - claiming it is free, forever.

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Case number
1:21-cr-175
Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Judge
Timothy J. Kelly
Disposition
Judgments vacated May 21, 2026; indictment dismissed with prejudice July 10, 2026
Arrested
January 15, 2021

Charges

  • Conspiracy; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers
  • Civil Disorder
  • Government Property or Contracts
  • Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
  • Robbery of Personal Property of the United States
  • Restricted Building or Grounds; Aiding and Abetting

Sentence

Earlier sentence commuted to time served on January 20, 2025; judgment vacated May 21, 2026; indictment dismissed with prejudice July 10, 2026.

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Connection to United States v. Nichols

Dominic Pezzola appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 10 shared documents on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.

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Evidence on file

10 documents on file

Ryan1 document

Ryan Nichols' own paperwork — grievances, motions, letters, cell notes.

Attorney3 documents

Defense counsel correspondence (Joseph McBride, Jonathan Gross).

Court5 documents

Court orders, rulings, transcripts, and docket entries.

Official recordserved from the court docket

docket · May 21, 2026

D.C. Circuit Vacatur Docket Reference — United States v. Nordean

Judge Timothy J. Kelly’s July 10, 2026 memorandum records that the D.C. Circuit granted the government’s unopposed motion on May 21, 2026 and vacated the judgments of Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, concluding that vacatur was just under the circumstances. The memorandum cites D.C. Circuit No. 23-3159, docket No. 2174532. The native appellate order remains pending capture, so this is a verified docket-reference record rather than a file-level copy.

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