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Stephen Chase Randolph

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Stephen Chase Randolph is a Harrodsburg, Kentucky man in his thirties whose January 6, 2021 case ended the way very few federal cases end anywhere in America: an eight-year prison sentence, followed just months later by a full presidential pardon that put him back on the street in Mercer County. The record on the conduct is serious and this profile is not going to pretend otherwise. Following a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, Randolph was convicted of felony civil disorder and of assaulting a Capitol Police officer with a deadly weapon, an offense the court found caused serious injury. He was sentenced in September 2024 to eight years in federal prison. That is FACT, drawn straight from the court record and Kentucky news coverage, and it is not softened here. Here is the other half of the record, the half Washington would rather nobody in Harrodsburg ever heard mentioned in the same sentence. Kentucky reporting confirms Randolph was among the Kentuckians released from federal prison on January 20, 2025, when President Trump's clemency proclamation went into effect. A man with prison records showing a release date years out in 2031 walked free that Monday instead. Same file, two outcomes, six years apart in policy. This is the record, not a defense of the underlying conduct and not an attack on the officer who was hurt. It is a plain statement of what actually happened to one Mercer County man's case: convicted at trial, sentenced to eight years, released under executive clemency less than four months later. Anyone telling only one half of that sentence is not telling you the record. Very little about Stephen Randolph's life outside this case has made it into the public record reviewed for this page. No interview from him sits in the news coverage gathered here. That gap is real and it's marked as such below rather than filled in with a guess. Stephen Randolph has not claimed this profile. His family can add his side, free, whenever they're ready. CASE RECORD: Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Case related to January 6, 2021 Capitol breach; case number 21-cr-332 per DOJ defendant index. Convicted at bench trial (Judge Jia M. Cobb) of felony civil disorder and assault of a Capitol Police officer with a dangerous weapon. Sentenced September 2024 to 8 years' imprisonment, 3 years' supervised release, $2,000 restitution. Released January 20, 2025 per Kentucky Public Radio reporting on that day's presidential clemency proclamation. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: personal, family, and occupational background not found in public record reviewed. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.