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James Weeks

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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James Weeks is a 55-year-old man from Sodus, New York, a small Wayne County town on the shore of Lake Ontario, who spent time in federal custody for his actions at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and was set free by presidential clemency before his sentence ran out. Let's be straight about the record. Weeks pleaded guilty to one felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. Video entered into the case showed him forcing his way into the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, breaching a police line, and later banging on property and breaking a window with a stick in the Capitol's Northwest Courtyard. Judge Beryl Howell sentenced him to 27 months in prison, three years of supervised release, restitution, and a fine. That happened. It's in the record and it's marked as such below. Here is the rest of the record. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency to four Rochester-area men convicted in the Capitol cases, and James Weeks was one of the four named. A man from a small New York farm town, sentenced under one administration's Justice Department to more than two years in federal prison, walked out under presidential pardon before that sentence was served. This is the record. Same country, same case type, and the outcome turned entirely on who held the pardon pen. Sodus, New York isn't a place with a militia chapter or an organized conspiracy case attached to its name. It's a small town that had one of its own charged, convicted, sentenced, and then released by executive clemency, same as men from Florida oath-taking groups and Proud Boys chapters got the same relief. Nobody here is arguing the underlying conduct away. The plea was a plea. What this record insists on is the second half of the story getting told with the same weight as the first half: convicted, yes. Also pardoned, by name, on January 20, 2025. Both are FACT. Neither is optional. James Weeks has not claimed this profile. If he or his family want to add their own words to this page, that costs nothing and takes one call. CASE RECORD: Sodus, New York. Convicted of one felony count, assaulting/resisting/impeding certain officers. Sentenced by Judge Beryl A. Howell to 27 months' imprisonment, 36 months' supervised release, $2,774 restitution, $5,000 fine. Named recipient of January 20, 2025 presidential clemency per 13WHAM Rochester reporting. Charges per NPR Jan. 6 database: Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Destruction of Government Property; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.