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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.