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Gracyn Dawn Courtright

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Gracyn Dawn Courtright was a college student from Hurricane, West Virginia — a University of Kentucky undergraduate in her early twenties, weeks from finishing her degree, who had not even voted in the 2020 election. FACT: Newsweek reported that Courtright did not vote in the 2020 presidential election. Sit with that. She was not a political operative, not an organizer, not a party volunteer. She was a 23-year-old kid who followed a crowd on the worst possible day. ## Who she is FACT: Gracyn Dawn Courtright is from Hurricane, in Putnam County, West Virginia — Kanawha Valley country outside Charleston. She was enrolled at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and withdrew from the university after her arrest. FACT: She was arrested on January 19, 2021 — thirteen days after January 6, and among the earliest arrests in the entire Capitol investigation. She was one of the youngest people charged. She lost her senior year. She lost the degree she had almost finished. She was 23 years old and her name was on every news broadcast in two states. Whatever she did that day, she was a young woman at the start of her life, and this archive refuses to reduce a whole human being to one afternoon. ## The legal fight, and where it stands FACT: Arrested January 19, 2021. Initial appearance January 27, 2021. Charged by criminal information February 3, 2021. Arraigned February 11, 2021 — pleaded **not guilty** to all counts. FACT: On August 30, 2021 she pleaded guilty to **Count 1 only** — a single misdemeanor count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority. FACT: Sentenced December 17, 2021 to 30 days of incarceration, 12 months of supervised release, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution. FACT: On January 20, 2025, the presidential January 6 clemency proclamation granted full pardons for offenses in this category. A single misdemeanor conviction of this kind falls within the proclamation''s full-pardon provision. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE — this archive has not separately verified an individual certificate entry for Courtright and states that openly rather than overclaiming. One misdemeanor. Thirty days. That is the entire federal criminal record of Gracyn Dawn Courtright. ## Case record - Case number: 1:21-cr-72 - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrest: January 19, 2021 - Plea: August 30, 2021 — guilty, Count 1 (misdemeanor) - Sentence: December 17, 2021 — 30 days, 12 months supervised release, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution - Clemency: January 20, 2025 J6 proclamation, full-pardon provision (individual certificate not separately verified here) - DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/courtright-gracyn-dawn Searching *Gracyn Courtright January 6*, *Gracyn Courtright Hurricane West Virginia*, *University of Kentucky student January 6*, *J6 pardon West Virginia*, or *youngest January 6 defendants*? This is the record: one misdemeanor, and a young woman entitled to the rest of her life. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.