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Bryan Shawn Smith
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Bryan Shawn Smith is a 37-year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama. (FACT: WAAY, WBRC.) He was on the Capitol's lower west terrace on January 6, 2021. The government alleged he was part of a confrontation with officers near the terrace tunnel and charged him with civil disorder and assault. Charges are charges. After a bench trial in 2024, he was found guilty. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a pardon covering January 6 defendants. (FACT.) Note: this is Bryan Shawn Smith of Huntsville, Alabama — not to be confused with other men who share the common name Shawn Smith. Every name here is a person, not a headline. If you know Bryan, help us fill in the rest. Case record: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Convicted at bench trial 2024; sentenced 11/15/2024. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
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- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-convicted-assaulting-law-enforcement-and-other-charges-during-jan-6-capitol →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-sentenced-assaulting-law-enforcement-and-other-charges-during-jan-6-capitol →
- https://www.wbrc.com/2024/05/13/huntsville-man-convicted-role-jan-6-capitol-breach/ →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Bryan Shawn Smith appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 1 shared document on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
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Responses from DC DOC, the U.S. Marshals, and federal agencies.
affidavit · Mar 26, 2024
Zach Rash FBI statement of facts — March 26, 2024
Ten-page FBI probable-cause affidavit filed on the complaint docket. It includes government descriptions of surveillance, open-source footage, the tunnel sequence, and an attributed October 2022 FBI interview.