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Eric Douglas Clark

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Eric Douglas Clark is a Louisville, Kentucky man who spent nearly four years under the weight of a January 6 case — and walked out the other side a free man. The record on Eric Clark is one of the longer roads in the J6 docket (FACT): arrested May 4, 2021, released on his own recognizance six days later, and left waiting a year and a half before an indictment even arrived in December 2022. He was never charged with assaulting anyone. The charges were entry and disorderly-conduct offenses — being where he should not have been, and photographing it. He fought the case. He pleaded not guilty in January 2023 and made the government carry its burden (FACT). In June 2024 he was sentenced to five months, and after seeking delays of his report date he was ordered to report by January 13, 2025 (FACT — reported by the Murray Ledger's Kentucky J6 case tracker). One week later, President Trump's January 20, 2025 proclamation ended January 6 prosecutions and convictions with pardons and commutations — and as of late January 2025, the Bureau of Prisons had no record of Eric Clark ever serving that sentence (FACT, same source). Four years of hearings, conditions, and waiting — and in the end, Eric Douglas Clark went home to Louisville. For a man whose case began with a knock from the FBI over Facebook photos, that is the ending his family was praying for. CASE RECORD - Case: United States v. Clark, No. 1:22-cr-00409 (initial complaint No. 21-mj-396) - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrested: May 4, 2021 · Indicted: December 19, 2022 · Sentenced: June 2024 (five months) - Clemency: covered by the January 20, 2025 proclamation This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.