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Joel Linn O'Donnell

January 6 defendant

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Joel Linn O'Donnell is a 44-year-old man from Clearwater, Florida who was arrested on federal charges 32 days before a judge threw the whole case out for good. Thirty-two days. Read that number and hold onto it, because it tells you more about this prosecution than any press release does. THE TIMELINE FACT: Joel Linn O'Donnell of Clearwater, Florida was arrested on December 19, 2024. That is three years, eleven months and thirteen days after January 6, 2021. (Source: NPR January 6 case database, compiled from federal court records; DOJ press release, December 2024.) FACT: On January 21, 2025, the court granted the government motion to dismiss the case WITH PREJUDICE. FACT: Thirty-two days from arrest to permanent dismissal. He never stood trial. He was never convicted of anything. He was never sentenced. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. THE CHARGES, AND ONLY THE CHARGES CHARGE ONLY, NEVER PROVEN: Obstruction of Law Enforcement during Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers, two counts; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings. Those are allegations. Every single one of them. A charging document is one side of a story that a jury never got to hear. FACT: Joel Linn O'Donnell pleaded NOT GUILTY to every count. FACT: No evidence in this case was ever tested at trial. No witness was cross-examined. No verdict was ever returned. THE PRESUMPTION Joel O'Donnell is presumed innocent of every charge listed above, and that presumption was never overcome, because the government asked the court to end the case with prejudice and the court did. With prejudice means the government cannot bring it back. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE It does not prove what any camera recorded on the Capitol grounds. What it proves is the shape of the docket: a Clearwater, Florida man charged in the last weeks of an administration, dismissed with prejudice 32 days later, with no conviction on his record from this case. THE RECORD U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, docket 1:24-cr-275667 series. Charging document on file at CourtListener. Arrested December 19, 2024. Dismissed with prejudice January 21, 2025. Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida. Show me the verdict. There is not one. The record does not lie. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.