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Douglas Austin Jensen

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Douglas Austin Jensen is a Des Moines, Iowa man, a construction worker, husband and father, whose January 6 case ended with a full presidential pardon on January 20, 2025. He is an Iowan from central Iowa who worked in the trades before his name became a headline. He is one of the most visually recognized January 6 defendants, and his family in Iowa carried the weight of the years that followed. Case record: Douglas Jensen was arrested January 8, 2021, indicted January 11, 2021, and charged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in case 1:21-cr-6. After multiple superseding indictments, on September 23, 2022 a jury found him guilty of all seven counts, including five felony offenses. On December 16, 2022 he was sentenced to 60 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and $2,000 in restitution. FACT: A jury in the District of Columbia returned guilty verdicts on all counts charged. Those are convictions, and the archive records them plainly. CHARGE ONLY / DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: The government framed Douglas Jensen as a "ringleader" who led a mob up a Capitol staircase behind Officer Eugene Goodman. That was the prosecution's argument. It is preserved here as the government's characterization; Jensen and his defense have offered different accounts of what he intended and what he did that day. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump granted a full pardon covering the January 6 prosecutions. Douglas Jensen of Iowa was among those covered by that clemency. Case: 1:21-cr-6, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Iowa Public Radio, ABC News, WUSA9, PBS NewsHour, and Law and Crime coverage of Douglas Jensen are linked in the sources. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.