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Rockne Gerard Earles

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Rockne Gerard Earles is a North Dakota man out of Oriska in Barnes County who later made his home in Chama, New Mexico. Here is something most people in his position cannot say. Rockne Earles put his own name on a ballot. FACT: Earles ran for the Barnes County Commission in November 2020. He did not win. He ran anyway. That matters. Most folks complain about the county and stay home. This man filed the paperwork, put his name up in public, and asked his neighbors for their vote. That is citizenship with skin in the game. Here is what the record shows. FACT: A criminal complaint was filed April 7, 2023, more than two years after January 6. FACT: Rockne Gerard Earles was arrested April 11, 2023 in Chama, New Mexico. FACT: He was 62 years old at the time. FACT: He was indicted in October 2023. CHARGE ONLY: The government alleged assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and civil disorder, along with misdemeanor counts. Those are allegations. Rockne Earles is presumed innocent. No conviction after trial was located in this review. FACT: Charging documents state he was inside the Capitol for approximately 27 minutes. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Online crowdsourced identification efforts tagged him with a nickname before any arrest, and press reports say a North Dakota law enforcement official confirmed his identity from FBI video. Crowdsourced identification is not evidence and it is not a court finding. FACT: On January 20, 2025, the presidential proclamation granted pardons for offenses relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and directed dismissal of pending January 6 indictments. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: A case still pending in January 2025 falls within that proclamation. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: Rockne Gerard Earles never stood before a jury on these allegations. There is no verdict here. There is a man from Oriska, North Dakota who once asked Barnes County for its vote. CASE RECORD Case number: 23-mj-76 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Complaint filed: April 7, 2023 Arrested: April 11, 2023 Indicted: October 2023 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.