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Kevin James Lyons
January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageKevin Lyons is a tradesman from Chicago — an HVAC technician by trade. (FACT) On January 6 he entered the Capitol and was later convicted of a felony obstruction charge along with misdemeanors. Those are the charges and the verdict. (FACT — charges are charges.) His legal fight connected to a much bigger one. In 2024 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Fischer v. United States, narrowed the very obstruction statute the government had used against hundreds of January 6 defendants. In the wake of that ruling Kevin was released from prison years early — he walked out in August 2024. (FACT) Then, on January 20, 2025, President Trump pardoned January 6 defendants, Kevin among them. (FACT) A Chicago tradesman whose case rode the same legal wave that the Supreme Court itself said the government had stretched too far. The court record: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, case no. 1:21-cr-79. Arrested January 13, 2021; convicted at trial April 2023; sentenced to 51 months; released August 2024; pardoned January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-79
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 1/13. Initial appearance held 1/19. Charged via criminal information 2/3. Arraigned 2/12 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Superseding indictment issued 6/9/21. Arraigned 8/9 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Status conference set for 10/1 at 9 am.
Charges
- Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building
- Entering and Remaining in Certain Rooms in the Capitol Building
- Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Kevin James Lyons appears in the record of United States v. Nichols. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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