A federal judge has swatted a request from another Jan. 6 defendant seeking a refund of restitution now that he has been pardoned by President Donald Trump , marking the fifth time that someone on the bench in Washington, D.C. has rejected a reimbursement request.

The latest refusal came on Wednesday from Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth , who already has one rejection under his belt. The defendant, Derek Kinnison, 42, of Lake Elsinore, was convicted and sentenced to 33 months in prison for taking part in the 2021 Capitol attack with members of the Three Percenter militia, according to the Justice Department .

Like his colleagues in the district, Lamberth pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1877 decision in Knote v. United States, which described a pardon as "an act of grace" th

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