"WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump issued a second pardon to a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms. The decision is the latest example of Trump's willingness to use his constitutional authority to help supporters who once tried to keep him in power despite his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020."
"Daniel Edwin Wilson of Louisville, Kentucky, was under investigation for his role in the riot when authorities found six guns and roughly 4,800 rounds of ammunition in his home. Because of prior felony convictions, it was illegal for him to possess firearms. The charges became part of a legal debate over whether Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 rioters applied to other crimes discovered during the sprawling federal dragnet that began after the attack on the Capitol."
Daniel Edwin Wilson, a Jan. 6 defendant from Louisville, Kentucky, received a pardon from President Donald Trump for firearms convictions that had kept him imprisoned. Authorities found six guns and about 4,800 rounds of ammunition in Wilson's home while investigating his role in the Capitol riot. Prior felony convictions made firearm possession illegal, creating a separate criminal exposure beyond his Jan. 6 charges. The firearms matter fueled legal debate over the scope of Jan. 6 pardons. Wilson had been sentenced in 2024 to five years for conspiring to impede or injure officers and illegal firearm possession, and he was released after the pardon.
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