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John Barry Chisholm

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John Barry Chisholm is a Greenville, South Carolina man who was inside the Capitol for about three minutes on January 6, decided he did not like what he saw, and walked out. That is his lawyer's account, on the record, and it is the shortest true version of the whole story. Greenville attorney Beattie Ashmore said John Barry Chisholm had cooperated with the government from the moment agents first contacted him on February 1, 2021. "He looked around and didn't like what he saw, and he left. He certainly caused no harm or damage to any person or property," Ashmore said. (THEIR ACCOUNT, through counsel, reported by The State) He was 34 at the time of his arrest. He and another Greenville man each wore a black hooded sweatshirt with 864 across the front in yellow. That is the area code for the Upstate. Home colors, worn to Washington. (FACT, The State, citing the federal complaint) HIS LEGAL FIGHT. Chisholm was arrested by the FBI and arraigned in Greenville before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin F. McDonald, where he posted a $25,000 unsecured bond and went home the same week. He was charged with four counts, every one of them a misdemeanor: knowingly entering a restricted area, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted area, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building, and parading or demonstrating in a Capitol building. No assault count. No weapon count. No felony. (FACT, The State) On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. (FACT) CASE RECORD, as preserved from the DOJ Capitol Breach list this archive mirrored after the government scrubbed it from justice.gov. The archived row for John Barry Chisholm carries no case number, no court, no arrest date and no disposition, so the news record above stands as the sourced account. Charges are charges. Nothing on this page states guilt beyond the court record. IDENTITY NOTE FOR FUTURE RUNS: a prior enrichment pass dated 2026-09-07 found no January 6 coverage under this name and warned that searches surface John T. Chisholm, the former Milwaukee County, Wisconsin District Attorney. That is a different man and nothing about him belongs on this page. That warning is now resolved: The State, republished by AOL, reports the FBI arrest of a January 6 defendant named John Barry Chisholm, 34, of the Greenville, South Carolina area, an exact match on this row's full three part name. The Milwaukee material stays off this page permanently. John Barry Chisholm. Greenville, South Carolina. Three minutes, then out the door. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.