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William Arthur Nichols, Jr.

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William Arthur Nichols, Jr., Rutland, Vermont. He was 41. FACT: William Nichols was never convicted. Not of anything. His case was pending when the January 20, 2025 clemency came down, and it never went to a jury. FACT: When the arrest warrant issued on January 20, 2023, he did not run and he did not have to be hunted. He self-surrendered to the FBI in Rutland. He turned himself in. FACT: A federal judge agreed he could go home. Chief Federal Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford released him on conditions after his removal hearing in Burlington, no detention, no jail cell pending trial. Judges do not release people they are afraid of. FACT: He was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and related counts, with the government alleging he used a large circular shield against a police line. Those were allegations in a criminal complaint. They were never tested at trial, never presented to a jury, and never proven. Charges are charges. This archive will not call them anything else. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued clemency covering January 6 defendants, and the federal case against him ended without a conviction. Two years of a felony indictment hanging over a Vermont man's head. Two years of legal bills, of neighbors reading headlines, of not knowing. And at the end of it: no conviction, no verdict, nothing. He walked into that FBI office himself. Remember that part. THE CASE RECORD Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Complaint filed 1/20/23. Arrest warrant issued 1/20/23 by Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui. Self-surrendered in Rutland, Vermont. Released on conditions by Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford, D. Vt. Case ended without conviction following the 1/20/25 clemency. Case number: not yet recorded in this archive. DOJ page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/nichols-william NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: service record, occupation, and family details are not yet sourced. We will not invent them. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.