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Garret Miller

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Garret Miller is a North Texas man from the Dallas area who won something almost no January 6 defendant won: he got a federal charge thrown out. That is the headline on Garret Miller's legal record, and it belongs at the top. After the Supreme Court's decision narrowing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), a federal judge agreed to dismiss the obstruction charge against Miller. He fought a count and he beat it. (FACT — WFAA, Dallas.) He also fought his case on the front end rather than folding. Miller was arrested January 20, 2021, one of the earliest January 6 arrests in the country. He was arraigned April 1, 2021 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. He was arraigned again May 26, 2021 on a superseding indictment and again pleaded not guilty to all counts. A second superseding indictment followed November 10, 2021. (FACT — DOJ defendant page.) Four years of docket. Not-guilty pleas. A charge dismissed. Garret Miller made the government work for every count in this case. WHAT WE STILL NEED The archive does not yet have Garret Miller's trade, his employer, his military or first-responder history, his family's own words, or a support page. Dallas-area coverage focused entirely on the courtroom. If any of it exists, we want it — sourced, in his words or his family's. THE LEGAL FIGHT Arrested January 20, 2021 in Dallas County, Texas; initial appearance January 22, 2021; indicted February 12, 2021. Miller was convicted of counts including assaulting a police officer, interstate threat, three counts of interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder, and related misdemeanors, and was sentenced February 22, 2023 by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols to 38 months of imprisonment and 36 months of supervised release. (FACT — DOJ; Washington Post; NBC News.) The archive states the counts of conviction and nothing beyond them. It does not editorialize and it does not delete. The obstruction count was later dismissed. (FACT — WFAA.) The January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation granted pardons and commutations for offenses relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Garret Miller's individual clemency status has not been verified by the archive against the Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate-recipient list, and it is an open question whether his interstate-threat count fell inside or outside the scope of the January 6 proclamation. This one matters. If you have the certificate or the order, send it. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-119, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested January 20, 2021. DOJ defendant page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/miller-garret This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.