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Sohail Bhatti

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Sohail Bhatti was 57 years old when federal agents came for him in June of 2024, three and a half years after January 6, 2021. He is on this page for four misdemeanors. Not one of them involves a weapon. Not one of them involves touching a police officer. WHAT HE WAS CHARGED WITH CHARGE ONLY. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION. Never tried, never convicted. Per the J6 defendant record compiled by the Patriot Mail Project: Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. Parading. That is the fourth count. A man in his late fifties was arrested in 2024 over a parading charge from 2021. Sohail Bhatti was never held before trial. He never served a sentence. He was presumed innocent the entire time, and he still is, because no court ever said otherwise. THE LEGAL FIGHT FACT: Arrested June 6, 2024. The case had been sealed and was unsealed that month. FACT: No trial date was ever set. No sentencing date was ever set. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. His case ended before a courtroom ever weighed it. THE CASE RECORD U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Case number not yet recorded in this archive. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: public reporting has placed Sohail Bhatti in two different places, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania and Cocoa, Florida. This archive will not guess a man's hometown. If you know which is right, send the documentation and it gets corrected the same day. Also needed: the case number, the docket, and anything about Sohail Bhatti as a person. Trade, family, service, faith, community. Right now this page holds four misdemeanor counts and an age. A man is more than that. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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June 6, 2024

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