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Edward Richmond, Jr.

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Edward Richmond Jr. is a Louisiana January 6 defendant whose verified public record includes a federal criminal complaint, a 2024 felony guilty plea, a 51-month sentence, and a January 2025 full pardon. CASE OVERVIEW An FBI affidavit was attested on September 5, 2023, in complaint docket 1:23-mj-00239. The public DOJ arrest announcement states that Richmond was arrested in Baton Rouge on January 22, 2024. The complaint listed six categories of alleged offenses and described the evidence the FBI relied upon to establish probable cause. Those descriptions remain government allegations from a charging-stage filing; the complaint was not a verdict and did not determine guilt. PLEA AND SENTENCE On August 15, 2024, Richmond pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John D. Bates to one felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon under 18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1) and 111(b). This single offense of conviction is distinct from the broader complaint-stage allegations. On November 18, 2024, Judge Bates sentenced Richmond to 51 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and $2,000 in restitution. These are procedural facts from the official DOJ sentencing record and are not presented as a judgment about Richmond’s overall moral character. CLEMENCY The January 20, 2025 presidential proclamation named fourteen people for sentence commutations and granted full, complete, and unconditional pardons to the other covered individuals convicted of January 6 offenses. Richmond was not among the fourteen named commutation recipients, so his conviction falls within the proclamation’s full-pardon provision. The archive has not yet preserved an individual pardon-certificate binary for him. SOURCE DISTINCTIONS The criminal complaint and DOJ releases are government sources. Descriptions of Richmond’s conduct are attributed to the FBI, prosecutors, plea record, or sentencing record as appropriate. The archive preserves those records while separating allegations from the offense of conviction and separating both from editorial analysis about Biden-era DOJ weaponization. FACTUAL FAQ What case number is verified? The preserved complaint identifies District of Columbia complaint docket 1:23-mj-00239. The later criminal-case docket number has not yet been independently captured. What did Richmond plead guilty to? One felony count under 18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1) and 111(b). What sentence was imposed? Fifty-one months’ imprisonment, thirty-six months’ supervised release, and $2,000 restitution. Was he pardoned? Yes. The January 20, 2025 proclamation’s full-pardon provision covers convicted January 6 defendants other than the fourteen people specifically named for commutations. What remains missing? The final criminal docket, plea agreement, statement of offense, signed judgment, sentencing transcript, Bureau of Prisons custody history, individual pardon certificate, authenticated post-pardon statement or interview, and a photograph with verified provenance and a lawful reuse basis. ARCHIVE CONNECTIONS AND EVIDENCE SUBMISSIONS The connected source records and timeline events below provide the current evidence map. Readers with authentic court records, custody records, firsthand statements, interviews, or provenance-cleared photographs may submit them for verification and connection to this profile.

The case file

On the record

Case number
1:23-mj-00239
Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Judge
John D. Bates
Disposition
Pleaded guilty on August 15, 2024, to one felony count under 18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1) and 111(b); sentenced on November 18, 2024; covered by the full-pardon provision of the January 20, 2025 presidential proclamation.
Arrested
January 22, 2024
Plea
August 15, 2024
Sentenced
November 18, 2024

Charges

  • Complaint allegation — assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury (18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1), 111(b))
  • Complaint allegation — civil disorder (18 U.S.C. § 231(a)(3))
  • Complaint allegation — entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon (18 U.S.C. §§ 1752(a)(1), (b)(1)(A))
  • Complaint allegation — disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds (18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2))
  • Complaint allegation — engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds (18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(4))
  • Complaint allegation — violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds (40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(F))
  • Offense of conviction — assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon (18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1), 111(b))

Sentence

51 months’ imprisonment; 36 months’ supervised release; $2,000 restitution.

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Connection to United States v. Nichols

Edward Richmond, Jr. appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 5 shared documents on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.

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Evidence on file

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Govt response5 documents

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