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Kelsie Marie Watkins

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Kelsie Marie Watkins is a North Carolina woman who held a not guilty plea in a federal January 6 case from arrest until the day it was dismissed. This is the record. FACT: Kelsie Marie Watkins was charged in connection with the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. FACT: per the federal complaint, the charges were misdemeanor level, entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct. CHARGE ONLY, presumption of innocence applies: the complaint does not allege Watkins assaulted anyone or carried a weapon. A note on identity, because this record demands precision: Kelsie Marie Watkins of North Carolina is a different person from Jessica Marie Watkins, the Ohio Oath Keepers defendant convicted at trial in a separate, unrelated case. The two share a last name and nothing else in this record. This profile is about Kelsie Marie Watkins only. Watkins was not arrested until October 9, 2024, more than three and a half years after January 6. She held her not guilty plea the entire time. She did not trade it away for a faster resolution. This is the record, and the record does not lie. A North Carolina woman stood on a not guilty plea against the federal government for a misdemeanor case tied to a single afternoon, and the case never got the chance to prove her wrong in front of a jury. Here is where the legal fight stands now. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed the pardon and clemency proclamation for January 6 defendants. FACT: On January 22, 2025, the court granted the government's own motion to dismiss Kelsie Watkins's case with prejudice. The government dropped its own case. Watkins was never convicted of anything. What this does not prove: dismissal with prejudice is the government's own choice to stop pursuing it, not a jury's finding, and this profile does not claim more than that. What it does prove: Kelsie Marie Watkins carries no federal conviction from January 6. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: beyond the federal complaint, no confirmed local coverage of Kelsie Watkins's family or work life in North Carolina has been located yet. CASE RECORD: U.S. District Court, transferred proceedings tied to the Eastern District of North Carolina and D.C. Charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. Arrested October 9, 2024, tied to North Carolina, age 31. Pleaded not guilty. Case dismissed with prejudice January 22, 2025, following the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. Read it. Share it. Send receipts, evidence, witnesses. Put eyes on the record. Do not threaten anyone, do not harass anyone, do not contact anyone in my name. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.