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Donald John Smith

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Donald John Smith is a South Jersey working man. He worked at a UPS branch in Lawnside, New Jersey and he was living in Lindenwold when the federal government came and took fifteen months of his life. A UPS man. Packages, routes, early mornings. FACT, per the American Gulag case record. AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT DROPPED IT This is the part that matters. Donald John Smith never pleaded guilty. He pleaded NOT GUILTY, twice, on October 18, 2021 and again on December 20, 2021. FACT. On October 28, 2022 the United States government filed its own motion to dismiss his case. On November 3, 2022, Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted it. Case dismissed. FACT, per the DOJ docket. No trial. No conviction. No plea. The prosecution walked away from it more than two years before any pardon existed. That is not clemency. That is the government looking at its own file and folding. THE LEGAL FIGHT Case initially filed as 1:21-mj-548. Arrested July 29, 2021 in Lindenwold, New Jersey. Released on personal recognizance August 5, 2021. FACT. Information filed October 6, 2021. Charges per the record: knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. All misdemeanors, all CHARGE ONLY, and all dismissed. FACT. Government motion to dismiss filed October 28, 2022. Granted November 3, 2022. FACT, per the DOJ docket. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. Donald John Smith's case had already been dismissed 26 months earlier. THE CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-616, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Disposition: DISMISSED on the government's own motion, November 3, 2022. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.