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James Tate Grant

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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James Tate Grant is one of the 1,571 January 6 defendants indexed in this archive — preserved from the DOJ Capitol Breach case list this site mirrored after the government scrubbed it from justice.gov. Case 1:21-cr-537 — U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charges, per the DOJ record: Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon or Inflicting Bodily Injury; Civil Disorder; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptived Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Entering and Remaining in Certain Rooms in the Capitol Building; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building. The docket, as recorded: Arrested 10/14/2021. Charged via second superseding indictment 12/15/2021. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever. Organize the record, add your documents, and tell the story where no platform can bury it.

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On the record

Case number
1:21-cr-537
Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Disposition
Arrested 10/14/2021. Charged via second superseding indictment 12/15/2021.
Arrested
October 14, 2021

Charges

  • Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon or Inflicting Bodily Injury
  • Civil Disorder
  • Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
  • Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds
  • Disorderly and Disruptived Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds
  • Entering and Remaining in Certain Rooms in the Capitol Building
  • Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
  • Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings
  • Parading, Demonstrating or Picketing in a Capitol Building

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Connection to United States v. Nichols

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article · Feb 2, 2024

DOJ bench-trial verdict announcement — Ryan Samsel and co-defendants

DOJ release reporting Judge Jia M. Cobb’s February 2, 2024 bench-trial findings for Ryan Samsel, James Tate Grant, Paul Russell Johnson, Stephen Chase Randolph, and Jason Benjamin Blythe. Canonical-URL SHA-256: b5bf9d1eafcebecc9beff5a20eed8b15e9ddb5c7384ac9e6b78f8471535a81f5. Capture: canonical HTML reviewed July 24, 2026; native findings and complete trial record pending.