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Eric Sun

January 6 defendant

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Eric Sun is a LaGrange, Georgia, man prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in United States v. Sun, No. 1:24-cr-00491-LLA. A November 4, 2024 Information charged two Class B misdemeanors: disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Those charges were allegations until resolved. In a signed statement of offense, Sun admitted entering through the Senate Wing doors at about 3:02 p.m. on January 6, 2021, walking into the Rotunda while recording, leaving at about 3:11 p.m., and later removing Facebook photographs of himself inside. These are stipulated plea facts, not editorial inferences. Sun entered guilty pleas to both counts on December 18, 2024. The court set sentencing for May 8, 2025, but no sentence was imposed. After the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation, the government moved to dismiss with prejudice, and Judge Loren L. AliKhan dismissed the Information with prejudice on January 27, 2025, vacated all hearings and deadlines, and terminated the case. The archive has located an identifiable image candidate connected to the signed statement of offense and NPR's January 6 archive. It remains withheld because a lawful reuse basis has not been documented; the visible image is a face-free archive card, not a photograph.