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Trudy Castle

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Trudy Castle is a single mother from Elmhurst, Illinois who takes care of her own mother. DuPage County. Fifty seven years old at sentencing. Trudy Castle raised her family in Elmhurst and, by the time she stood in front of a federal judge, she was the one her mother counted on. [FACT, ABC7 Chicago] That is who this woman is off the docket. A caregiver in the western suburbs of Chicago. THE LEGAL FIGHT Trudy Castle went to Washington on January 6, 2021 with her sister, Kimberly DiFrancesco. They were inside the Capitol for about forty minutes. [FACT] A complaint was filed May 27, 2022. An information was filed July 28, 2022. Sixteen months after the day itself. [FACT] She pleaded guilty on August 17, 2022 to the misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. [FACT] Misdemeanor. Not a felony. Not a weapon. Not an assault. Prosecutors asked the court for thirty days in jail. On November 22, 2022, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said no. He gave her thirty months of probation, a $2,000 fine, and $500 in restitution. No prison. No community service requirement. [FACT, ABC7 Chicago and CBS Chicago] WHAT TRUDY CASTLE SAID TO THE COURT Through her filing she told the judge she is ashamed and truly sorry, that she will relive that decision every day, and that she offered herself to the mercy of the court. [THEIR ACCOUNT, court filing as reported] She owned it. Then she went home to her family. On January 20, 2025, the President issued clemency covering January 6 prosecutions. [FACT] How that applied to a completed misdemeanor sentence in Trudy Castle's case is [NEEDS AUTHENTICATION]. THE CASE RECORD Case number: 1:22-cr-261, initially filed as 1:22-mj-121 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge: Christopher Cooper Complaint May 27, 2022. Information July 28, 2022. Guilty plea August 17, 2022. Sentenced November 22, 2022. DOJ defendant page is linked on this profile. WHAT IT DOES PROVE A federal judge heard the government ask for jail for an Elmhurst grandmother's misdemeanor and turned it down. The record does not lie. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.