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Nicholas Scott Ingram Hofer
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Nicholas Scott Ingram Hofer did not make anybody kick a door. On August 28, 2024, the 34 year old from Carbon, Indiana walked into the federal courthouse in Indianapolis and surrendered himself. FACT: Nicholas Scott Ingram Hofer, 34, of Carbon in Clay County, Indiana, self surrendered at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. He was not taken at gunpoint. He turned himself in. Source: Indiana news coverage and the Justice Department announcement. CHARGE ONLY: He was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and with civil disorder, plus a set of misdemeanors. Those were allegations in a criminal complaint. Nicholas Hofer is presumed innocent of every one of them. FACT: He never pleaded guilty. There was no trial. No jury ever weighed the government's claims and no judge ever found him guilty of anything. FACT: On January 21, 2025, one day after the January 20, 2025 clemency, the court granted the government's motion to dismiss his case WITH PREJUDICE. That is final and it cannot be refiled. Nicholas Scott Ingram Hofer carries no January 6 conviction. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: His trade, his employer in Clay County, any military or first responder service, his family in Carbon, Indiana. None of it has surfaced in a source we can stand behind, and all of it belongs here if he wants it. CASE RECORD Name: Nicholas Scott Ingram Hofer, Carbon, Clay County, Indiana Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Docket: CourtListener D.D.C. docket 271902 Self surrender: August 28, 2024, federal courthouse, Indianapolis, Indiana Plea: No guilty plea. No trial. No verdict. Status: DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, January 21, 2025. No conviction. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
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- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.271902/gov.uscourts.dcd.271902.1.1.pdf →
- https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/database.html →
- https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/indiana-man-arrested-assaulting-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-riot-washington-dc-carbon-indiana/531-32e5b682-9c90-42bb-a186-9b196fc602a6 →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-man-arrested-assaulting-law-enforcement-and-other-charges-during-jan-6-capitol →
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