Rebecca Lavrenz J6 Case Record: Four-Count Verdict, Probation, Appeal and Full Pardon

By the Real Ryan Nichols Editorial Team

Rebecca Lavrenz, a Colorado grandmother publicly known as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” was prosecuted in the District of Columbia on four January 6 misdemeanor counts. A jury found her guilty on all four counts on April 4, 2024. Contemporary courthouse reporting says U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui later imposed twelve months of probation, including six months of home confinement, a $103,000 fine and $500 in restitution, with no prison term.

Lavrenz filed an appeal. President Donald J. Trump then granted full pardons to the covered January 6 defendants who were not among the fourteen people specifically named for commutations in his January 20, 2025 proclamation. The Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public certificate-recipient page includes the exact entry LAVRENZ, REBECCA.

Those parts of the record must be kept distinct.

A criminal complaint and FBI affidavit are charging and probable-cause records. A jury verdict is an adjudicated outcome. The reported sentence should remain attributed until the signed judgment is captured. An appeal is not proof that a judgment was reversed. A pardon is executive clemency; it is not an acquittal or a judicial finding that every government allegation was false.

This article preserves all of those boundaries while treating Lavrenz as a person rather than a label.

Verified quick facts

Field	Verified record
Full name	Rebecca Lavrenz
Public profile	Rebecca Lavrenz J6 profile
Initial complaint matter	United States v. Lavrenz, D.D.C. No. 1:22-mj-00208-GMH
District criminal case	United States v. Lavrenz, D.D.C. No. 1:23-cr-00066-ZMF-1
Trial and sentencing judge	U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui
Arrest	December 19, 2022, in Denver
Charges	Four misdemeanor access-and-conduct counts
Jury verdict	Guilty on all four counts on April 4, 2024
Reported sentence	Twelve months’ probation, including six months of home confinement; $103,000 fine; $500 restitution; no imprisonment
Appeal	D.C. Circuit No. 24-3105, docketed August 26, 2024
Clemency	Full pardon effective January 20, 2025; Office of the Pardon Attorney lists LAVRENZ, REBECCA as a certificate recipient
Verified portrait	None assigned; lawful reuse permission and complete person-level provenance have not been established

The archive has captured and hashed the criminal complaint and FBI Statement of Facts. It has not yet captured the operative criminal information, verdict form, signed judgment, sentencing transcript, complete appellate docket or Lavrenz’s individual pardon-certificate PDF.

What the charging records establish

The Justice Department’s Rebecca Lavrenz defendant page links the initial complaint and FBI Statement of Facts and reports that she was arrested in Denver on December 19, 2022.

The criminal complaint, signed September 19, 2022, lists four misdemeanor allegations:

• entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds under 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1);
• disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds under 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2);
• disorderly conduct in a Capitol building under 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D); and
• parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building under 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(G).

The FBI Statement of Facts alleges that surveillance showed Lavrenz entering through the East Rotunda Doors at approximately 2:43 p.m., remaining in and near the Rotunda, briefly speaking with a U.S. Capitol Police officer, and leaving at approximately 2:53 p.m.

Those descriptions are the FBI agent’s probable-cause allegations. They should not be retold as though this archive independently authenticated each movement or every inference in the affidavit.

The same distinction applies to labels used by advocates, prosecutors and news organizations. “J6 Praying Grandma” is a public nickname. It is not a charge, verdict or legal status.

What the jury decided

On April 4, 2024, a jury found Lavrenz guilty on all four misdemeanor counts. Wisconsin Watch’s fact brief reports that outcome and identifies the four offenses.

The archive does not yet hold the native verdict form, jury instructions, exhibits or trial transcript. That matters because those records would show precisely what the jury was asked to decide, what evidence was admitted, what legal instructions governed deliberations and whether any preserved appellate issues arose during trial.

Until those records are captured, this article does not speculate about the jury’s reasoning or invent a defense theory.

The reported sentence—and the verification limit

The Colorado Sun reported from the August 12, 2024 sentencing that Judge Faruqui imposed:

• twelve months of probation;
• six months of home confinement as part of that probation;
• a $103,000 fine;
• $500 in restitution; and
• no term of imprisonment.

That is a substantial financial sentence even without incarceration. It should be reported accurately, not minimized and not inflated.

The signed judgment and sentencing transcript remain missing from this archive. The amounts and conditions are therefore attributed to contemporaneous reporting rather than presented as a transcription from a captured judgment. The archive also does not yet have a verified payment, remission, refund or post-pardon accounting record for the fine and restitution.

What the appeal record currently proves

The public D.C. Circuit docket mirror establishes that appeal No. 24-3105 was docketed on August 26, 2024, from D.D.C. case No. 1:23-cr-00066-ZMF-1. It publicly lists John Mark Pierce as counsel for Lavrenz.

The available mirror contains only the opening docket information and says it was last retrieved on the day the appeal was filed. During the source review, the official appellate filing system was undergoing scheduled maintenance. The archive therefore does not claim a final appellate disposition, judgment or mandate.

An appeal being filed does not mean it succeeded. A pardon being issued does not, by itself, disclose what happened to every pending appellate issue. Any article stating that the conviction was reversed, vacated or affirmed would require a later native order or judgment that has not yet been captured here.

What the January 2025 pardon did

President Trump’s January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation granted full, complete and unconditional pardons to covered January 6 defendants other than fourteen named individuals whose sentences were commuted to time served.

Lavrenz was not among those fourteen commutation recipients. The Office of the Pardon Attorney’s certificate-recipient page, updated March 5, 2026, contains the exact entry LAVRENZ, REBECCA. The page says its list covers people who requested and were issued a certificate.

Together, those official records support classifying Lavrenz’s January 6 clemency as a full pardon.

The archive has not yet captured her individual certificate PDF. It therefore does not quote person-specific certificate language or claim an offense-by-offense transcription.

A full pardon is a powerful legal act, but precision still matters:

• it is not an acquittal;
• it is not the same as a judicial vacatur;
• it does not prove every allegation true or false;
• it does not erase the historical fact that a jury returned a verdict; and
• it does not define Lavrenz’s complete character, faith or life.

Lavrenz’s post-pardon account

In a February 10, 2025 interview published by The Kim Monson Show, Lavrenz said her probation officer instructed her to remove her ankle monitor after the pardon. She also described an intention to continue challenging trial rulings that she believed implicated First Amendment rights.

Those are Lavrenz’s firsthand statements, preserved with attribution. They are not substituted for a court order, used to establish the current appellate posture, or treated as independent proof of a constitutional violation.

The publisher page and displayed transcript were reviewed. Native audio, complete media metadata, speaker-level timestamps and an audio-file hash remain capture targets.

Seven-event timeline

• September 19, 2022: The criminal complaint is signed, charging four misdemeanors.
• December 19, 2022: Federal authorities arrest Lavrenz in Denver.
• April 4, 2024: A jury returns guilty verdicts on all four counts.
• August 12, 2024: Judge Faruqui imposes the sentence reported by The Colorado Sun.
• August 26, 2024: Lavrenz’s appeal is docketed as D.C. Circuit No. 24-3105.
• January 20, 2025: President Trump grants Lavrenz a full January 6 pardon.
• February 10, 2025: Lavrenz discusses monitoring and her legal challenge in a post-pardon interview.

Ryan’s Take

This site’s editorial position is that January 6 defendants deserve complete records, humane treatment and serious scrutiny of Biden-era DOJ charging, trial, confinement and sentencing practices.

Lavrenz’s case raises fair questions about proportionality, particularly a reported six-figure fine and home confinement in a nonviolent misdemeanor case. But advocacy does not become stronger by pretending there was no jury verdict, declaring an appeal successful without an order, or calling a pardon an acquittal.

The strongest public record keeps the government’s allegations in their proper box, the jury’s verdict in its own box, the reported sentence behind an explicit verification label, the appeal within the limits of the captured docket and the pardon within the language of the official proclamation.

Respect for a J6 defendant and respect for the documentary record should reinforce each other.

Related profiles, source records and Case Nexus

• Rebecca Lavrenz profile
• Lavrenz criminal complaint
• Lavrenz FBI Statement of Facts
• Lavrenz jury-verdict source record
• Lavrenz sentencing source record
• Lavrenz appellate-docket record
• Lavrenz pardon-recipient record
• Donald J. Trump profile, connected here only in his documented role as the granting president
• Compare Andrew Cavanaugh’s one-count plea, probation and pardon record
• Compare David Blair’s plea, sentence, pardon and separate civil-rights ruling
• Explore the J6 Case Nexus for connected people, events and documents

Evidence still needed

The highest-value additions are the operative charging instrument, native verdict form, jury instructions, complete trial transcript and exhibits, sentencing memoranda, signed judgment, sentencing transcript, complete D.C. Circuit docket and briefs, final appellate order or mandate, individual pardon certificate, verified financial-disposition records, native interview audio and a provenance-cleared photograph.

Submit a photograph only with identity confirmation, the original source, photographer or rights-holder information, and a documented lawful reuse basis. Do not submit sealed material, login credentials, private family information or copyrighted media without permission.

Use the evidence-submission page and include the original URL, date, docket number, filing number and provenance.

Principal sources

• DOJ Rebecca Lavrenz defendant page
• Criminal complaint, signed September 19, 2022
• FBI Statement of Facts, signed September 19, 2022
• Wisconsin Watch verdict fact brief, April 5, 2024
• The Colorado Sun sentencing report, August 12, 2024
• D.C. Circuit appeal docket mirror, No. 24-3105
• January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation
• DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate-recipient list
• The Kim Monson Show post-pardon interview page, February 10, 2025

Source note: The one-page complaint was verified as a 220,092-byte PDF with SHA-256 b9d4bdf472b3b8d3ecb530b337920ffd3f74e01a38b2cd5563a8c84f96b812c5. The five-page FBI Statement of Facts was verified as a 2,070,965-byte PDF with SHA-256 330250e3f7d8105bf8356c054d2fc81ed1df19734012449c8a52171773daa7e9. Persistent archive-controlled binary storage remains pending.

Image note: The social artwork is an original symbolic illustration. It does not depict Lavrenz, an authentic filing, an official seal, a jury, a real courtroom or evidence from her case.

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