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Joshua Lee Atwood
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageJoshua Lee Atwood comes from Burgettstown, Pennsylvania — a small Washington County town outside Pittsburgh. When the government brought its case, he did not drag it out. Joshua Lee Atwood accepted responsibility and pleaded guilty to a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon (FACT, DOJ / Observer-Reporter). In December 2024, he was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release (FACT, Herald-Standard). Then the ground shifted. Weeks after that sentence — on January 20, 2025 — the presidential proclamation granted full pardons to individuals convicted of offenses relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and Joshua Atwood's sentence was over almost as soon as it began. Case record: prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; DOJ press releases and Pennsylvania coverage linked below. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
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- https://www.heraldstandard.com/editors_pick/2024/dec/21/burgettstown-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-jan-6-attack-on-u-s-capitol/ →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pennsylvania-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-law-enforcement-dangerous-weapon-during-jan-6 →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pennsylvania-man-sentenced-prison-assaulting-law-enforcement-weapon-during-jan-6-capitol →
- https://www.observer-reporter.com/editors_pick/2024/dec/21/burgettstown-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-jan-6-attack-on-u-s-capitol/ →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Joshua Lee Atwood appears in the record of United States v. Nichols. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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