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Erik Herrera
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Erik Herrera is a photographer. Before January 6, he worked as a freelance photographer in the El Cajon area of San Diego County — he had even sold his images to a local outlet, East County Magazine, in 2020. Photography was his craft and his eye on the world. (FACT — reported by East County Magazine and Times of San Diego.) That is the part of him that existed long before a single day in Washington defined the headlines. The court record, straight: Herrera was found guilty by a jury in 2022 of obstruction of an official proceeding and misdemeanor counts tied to his conduct at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and was sentenced in January 2023 to 48 months, plus supervised release and a fine. Charges are charges, and the jury reached its verdict. His case was among those addressed by the January 20, 2025 clemency for January 6 defendants. (FACT.) Case record: No. 1:21-cr-619, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested August 19, 2021. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
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On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-619
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Initially filed as Case # 1:21-mj-556. Complaint filed 8/6/21. Arrested 8/19/21. Indicted 10/6/21. Sentenced 1/13/23 to 48 months incarceration, three years supervised release, $1,000 fine, and special assessments of $170.
- Arrested
- August 19, 2021
- Sentenced
- January 13, 2023
Sentence
48 months incarceration, three years supervised release, $1,000 fine, and special assessments of $170
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
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