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Richard Slaughter

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Richard Slaughter runs a teen center with his wife in Orting, Washington. He is a mortgage loan officer. His neighbors elected him to the Orting School Board in the fall of 2021. A teen center. Think about what that is. A place for other people's kids to go so they are not somewhere worse. He and his wife built that. FACT: Richard Slaughter, 40, of Orting, Washington, northwest of Mount Rainier in Pierce County, works as a mortgage loan officer and runs a teen center with his wife, according to the Associated Press. FACT: He won a seat on the Orting School Board in fall 2021 running on a platform opposing mask mandates in schools. He resigned that seat on October 19, 2022, a week after turning himself in. FACT: He turned himself in. He was not hunted down. Richard Slaughter and his adult stepson Caden Gottfried surrendered and were arrested October 12, 2022, in Tacoma, Washington. He was released on personal recognizance eight days later. CHARGE ONLY: the government charged Slaughter with Robbery, Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon, Civil Disorder, and additional counts involving a deadly or dangerous weapon. Every one of those was an allegation. FACT: Richard Slaughter pleaded NOT GUILTY to all charges and fought for more than two years. His defense filed a motion asking the court to investigate whether discovery materials handed to the defense carried malware, and to impose sanctions. FACT: A bench trial was held. The verdict was set for January 28, 2025. The verdict never came. On January 21, 2025, the court granted the government's motion and dismissed the case with prejudice, following the clemency President Trump granted on January 20, 2025. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: no count against Richard Slaughter was ever proven. No plea. No verdict. No sentence. The case is closed with prejudice and cannot be refiled. Case record: Case 1:22-cr-354, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, docket dcd 248872, before Judge Royce C. Lamberth. Arrested October 12, 2022, Tacoma, Washington. Dismissed with prejudice January 21, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.