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Stephanie M. Hazelton

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Stephanie M. Hazelton of Medford, New Jersey is a homeschooling mother who built a statewide advocacy network from her own kitchen table. FACT: Hazelton is from Medford, New Jersey and was 51 at the time of her sentencing. She is a stay at home mother who homeschools her two sons. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2, 2023. FACT: She founded New Jersey for Medical Freedom, organized demonstrations at the New Jersey State House against proposed vaccine mandate legislation, and led Reopen New Jersey rallies in 2020. Source: same. FACT: She was raised on a religious commune outside Trenton that had no plumbing and no electricity. Source: same. Start with that childhood. No plumbing. No electricity. A religious commune outside Trenton. Stephanie Hazelton did not start on third base. And then look at what she built. She organized regular New Jersey parents who felt like nobody in Trenton was listening to them. She got them to the State House. She kept showing up during 2020 when showing up was the thing you were not supposed to do. Agree with her or do not, but that is what a grassroots community leader looks like, and she did it while homeschooling her boys. THE LEGAL FIGHT FACT: Arrested January 22, 2021. Initial appearance January 28, 2021, where she pleaded not guilty to all counts. FACT: Superseding indictment November 10, 2021. FACT: Pleaded guilty October 14, 2022 to one count of civil disorder. FACT: Sentenced June 1, 2023 by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates to 10 days incarceration, two years probation and $2,000 restitution. The government characterized her as a commander on the battlefield. The court gave her ten days. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued clemency covering January 6 defendants. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: An individual clemency certificate for Stephanie M. Hazelton has not been located in the records reviewed here. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE Ten days. That is what a federal judge decided the conduct was worth after hearing the government call her a battlefield commander. Read the sentence, not the adjectives. CASE RECORD Name: Stephanie M. Hazelton (also known as Ayla Wolf) City: Medford, New Jersey Case number: 1:21-cr-30 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge: Hon. John D. Bates Arrested: January 22, 2021 Plea: Guilty, civil disorder, October 14, 2022 Sentenced: June 1, 2023 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.