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Lee Stutts

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## Lee Stutts January 6 case record Lee Stutts is a former United States Marine from Terrell, North Carolina, whose January 6 prosecution was pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia when the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation directed the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice of pending January 6 indictments. The archive has not captured a person-specific dismissal motion or signed dismissal order. It therefore records the proclamation’s directive and the case’s reported pre-clemency posture without claiming a final docket disposition that has not been verified. ## Arrest and initial allegations The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia reported that Stutts was arrested in North Carolina on November 16, 2023. The complaint charged felony offenses involving alleged assault, resistance, or impediment of officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon and alleged obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, along with restricted-area misdemeanors. DOJ alleged that Stutts had physical contact with multiple officers, threw an item toward police, pushed bicycle-rack fencing, and joined others moving a large sign toward a police line. Those descriptions are preserved as complaint-stage government allegations. The DOJ announcement itself states that a complaint is only an allegation and that a defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. ## Indictments and not-guilty plea A public docket mirror identifies the controlling district case as *United States v. Stutts*, No. `1:24-cr-00019-TSC`, before Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. The mirror reports that an indictment was filed on January 10, 2024 and listed thirteen counts, including obstruction, civil disorder, multiple officer-assault counts, and restricted-area and Capitol-grounds offenses. The Charlotte Observer reported that Stutts pleaded not guilty at his January 29, 2024 arraignment. A May 5, 2024 report states that a superseding indictment filed May 1 added two officer-assault counts, bringing the reported total to fifteen. The native indictment and superseding-indictment binaries have not been captured, so the archive preserves these as docket and reporting records rather than claiming file-level verification. ## Stutts’s firsthand account In January and May 2024 interviews, Stutts disputed important parts of the government’s account. He acknowledged being present and described his conduct in his own words, but denied punching officers and later denied that he had used the large sign in the manner alleged. Those statements are identified as Stutts’s firsthand account. They are not treated as judicial findings or as independently verified exculpatory evidence. The archive likewise does not convert the government’s allegations into established facts. ## January 2025 procedural boundary Contemporary reporting shortly before January 20, 2025 described Stutts as having pleaded not guilty and awaiting trial on fifteen counts. Proclamation 10887 then directed the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice of all pending indictments for January 6 conduct. Because Stutts had no captured conviction or sentence, this profile does not describe him as a conviction-based pardon-certificate recipient. It records the pending-case dismissal directive while leaving the final person-specific docket outcome open until the dismissal motion and signed order are obtained. ## Frequently asked questions ### Was Lee Stutts convicted or sentenced? No conviction or sentence has been verified. Available sources describe a pending prosecution and a not-guilty plea before the January 20, 2025 dismissal directive. ### How many counts were pending? The January 2024 indictment was reported as thirteen counts. A May 2024 superseding indictment was reported to have increased the total to fifteen. The native superseding filing remains a capture target. ### Are the assault descriptions established facts? They are allegations attributed to the FBI and DOJ. Stutts disputed several of them in interviews. No completed trial verdict was captured. ### Did the proclamation itself dismiss the case? The proclamation directed the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice. A person-specific dismissal motion and signed order are still needed to document the final docket disposition precisely. ## Archive connections Review the connected arrest announcement, docket lead, not-guilty-plea report, superseding-indictment report, firsthand interview, and Proclamation 10887 record. Use the [J6 Case Nexus](/case/nexus) to explore related people, documents, and events. Verified court filings, complete docket records, lawful-use photographs, or corrections may be submitted through the [evidence-submission page](/submit). Include the original source, date, case number, docket entry, provenance, and reuse basis. ## Editorial note This site’s editorial position is that January 6 defendants deserve complete records, humane treatment, and scrutiny of alleged or documented Biden-era DOJ weaponization. That analysis remains separate from the factual record. Supportive treatment does not require omitting government allegations, and source accuracy does not require accepting those allegations as moral judgments about Lee Stutts.