Melody Steele-Smith is pictured inside the U.S. Capitol Building. She is not charged with any violence for her behavior on January 6.
Please keep in mind that in the United States, every citizen charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
- First Name(s): Melody
- Last Name(s): Steele-Smith
- Case Number: 1:21-cr-77
- Arrest Location: Gloucester, VA
- Judge: Robin M. Meriweather
- Entry Last Updated: 08/04/2021
- Date Docket Downloaded: 11/29/2021
- Currently Incarcerated: No
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Charges
Obstruction of an Official Proceeding Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds Entering and Remaining in Certain Rooms in the Capitol Building; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
Case Status
Arrested 1/20/2021. Indicted 2/3/21 and arraigned on 2/12/21 where she pleaded not guilty to all counts. The court ordered footage from a body-worn camera to be provided to the defense on or before 8/31. The last status conference took place on 10/22, and another one is set for 12/17.
USA Attorney
Brittany Reed
Brittany LaShaune Reed
US Attorney's Office
650 Poydras Street
#1600
New Orleans, LA 70130
504 680 3031
[email protected]sdoj.gov
LEAD ATTORNEY
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Designation: Assistant US Attorney
USA Attorney
Melissa Joy Jackson
Melissa Joy Jackson
USAODC
555 4th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20530
202 252 7780
[email protected]
TERMINATED 2/22/21
Prison Name
NA-Released.
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Case Documents
- steel-smith_melody_-_complaint_affidavit
- steele-smith_-_indictment_0
- #3-MOTION to Seal Case by USA as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #4-ORDER granting 3 Motion to Seal Case as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #5-ORDER Setting Conditions of Bond -Defendant MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #7-Arrest Warrant, dated 1.19.2021, Returned Executed in the U.S. District for the District of Columbia on 1.22.2021 as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #8-INDICTMENT as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #11-NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE
- #13-NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE
- #15-Unopposed MOTION to Continue and to Exclude Time Under the Speedy Trial Act by USA as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #18-STATUS REPORT Regarding Discovery by USA as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #19-MOTION to Compel Rule 16 and Brady Material by MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- Docket Download-8.22.21
- #22-Unopposed MOTION for Protective Order by USA as to MELODY STEELE-SMITH
- #23-PROTECTIVE ORDER
- #24-Consent MOTION change time of status hearing conference by MELODY STEELE-SMITH.
- Updates to Docket-11.29.21