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Kelly Meggs

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Kelly Meggs is a Florida husband and father from Dunnellon, in Marion County, and the January 6 defendant whose federal judgment an appeals court threw out. Start with the part the 2023 headlines never got to print. **FACT: On May 21, 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the judgment against Kelly Meggs and remanded his case.** On May 22, 2026 the government moved to dismiss his indictment with prejudice. Judge Amit P. Mehta deferred final disposition on May 29, 2026. This archive has not verified a later final dismissal order. That is not a footnote. That is the appellate court taking the verdict apart. ## The man, not the caption FACT: Kelly Meggs lived in Dunnellon, Florida when federal agents arrested him on February 17, 2021. He is a husband. His wife, Connie Meggs, was charged in the same investigation. They walked into that Ocala-area federal courthouse together and they faced it together, a detail local Florida outlets reported at the time and one that says more about the family than any government sentencing memo did. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Published biographical accounts place Meggs in the automobile business in north central Florida, including a general-manager role at a Lake City dealership starting around 2010. This archive has not independently confirmed that employment history and does not present it as verified. He was not a public figure. He was a man with a job, a marriage, and a mortgage, who became a name on the largest federal docket in American history. ## The legal fight, and where it stands FACT: A jury returned verdicts on November 29, 2022 in *United States v. Rhodes et al.* On May 25, 2023 Meggs was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 36 months of supervised release. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump''s clemency proclamation commuted Kelly Meggs'' sentence to time served. He went home. Note the distinction this archive insists on: Meggs received a **commutation**, not a full J6 pardon, which is exactly why the 2026 appellate vacatur matters so much to him and to his family. FACT: The D.C. Circuit vacated the judgment on May 21, 2026. The Justice Department itself then asked the court to dismiss the case with prejudice. Read that sequence in order. Clemency freed him. The appeal cleared the judgment. The government asked to end it for good. ## Case record - Case number: 1:22-cr-00015-APM - Courts: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit - Judge: Amit P. Mehta - Arrest: February 17, 2021 - Verdict: November 29, 2022 · Sentence: May 25, 2023 (12 years) - Clemency: January 20, 2025, commutation to time served - Appeal: judgment vacated May 21, 2026; government dismissal motion filed May 22, 2026 - DOJ record: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/meggs-kelly Anyone searching *Kelly Meggs January 6*, *Kelly Meggs Dunnellon Florida*, *Kelly Meggs vacated conviction*, or *J6 clemency* should land on the full record, including the 2026 ruling. That is what this archive is for. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.

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Case number: 1:22-cr-00015-APM
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Judge: Amit P. Mehta
Disposition: Jury verdict entered November 29, 2022 on seditious conspiracy and four related felony counts. Sentenced May 25, 2023 to 12 years imprisonment and 36 months supervised release. Sentence commuted to time served January 20, 2025. D.C. Circuit judgment vacated May 21, 2026 and case remanded. Government moved May 22, 2026 to dismiss the indictment with prejudice; Judge Amit P. Mehta deferred final disposition on May 29, 2026. No later final dismissal order has been verified in this archive.

Arrested: February 17, 2021
Sentenced: May 25, 2023

Charges

Seditious conspiracy
Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding
Obstruction of an official proceeding
Conspiracy to prevent an officer of the United States from discharging duties
Tampering with documents or proceedings

Sentence

144 months imprisonment and 36 months supervised release. Sentence commuted to time served January 20, 2025. D.C. Circuit judgment vacated May 21, 2026 and remanded; the government moved to dismiss with prejudice, but the district court deferred a final ruling on May 29, 2026 pending a fuller explanation.

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Connection to United States v. Nichols

Kelly Meggs appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 26 shared documents on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.

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26 documents on file

Co-detainee16 documents in 14 items

Witness statements and letters from fellow January 6 detainees. These are attributed accounts, not court findings.

affidavit · May 14, 2022

Witness statement: Ryan Nichols — Divontay Brown suicide attempt in SHU

Witness statement authored and signed by Ryan Nichols on 5/14/22 recounting that CPL Abdullah reported on Saturday May 14 at ~10:30am that Divontay Brown had hanged himself in SHU. Nichols had shared a medical safety cell with Brown in early May and reports LT Lancaster refused to release Brown from 22+ months in isolation despite repeated requests for help. Co-witnessed by Peter Stager, Kenny Harrelson, Jeff McKellop, Kelly Meggs.

Kelly Meggs

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26 documents on file

Co-detainee16 documents in 14 items

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