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Joseph Leyden

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Joseph Leyden is a Chicago-area man from La Grange, Illinois. He did not go to Washington alone. He went with his brother, Daniel Leyden. Two brothers from the western suburbs, in the same crowd on the same day. FACT: Joseph Leyden was charged by complaint on August 10, 2022 and arrested on August 23, 2022, more than nineteen months after January 6, 2021. Nineteen months of ordinary life before the knock came. FACT: The charges against Joseph Leyden included felony and misdemeanor counts arising from the Capitol breach, per the U.S. Department of Justice. FACT: Joseph Leyden and his brother Daniel later changed their pleas to guilty in the federal January 6 case, as reported by ABC7 Chicago. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: The January 20, 2025 clemency action covered federal January 6 convictions. The archive has not separately confirmed how it was applied to this docket. If you have that paperwork, send it. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: A charge is a charge. The archive publishes what the government alleged, not a conclusion about the man. Nothing in this record speaks to Joseph Leyden as a neighbor, a worker, or a brother. WHAT IT DOES PROVE: Two brothers from La Grange, Illinois, went into the federal system together over one afternoon. That is the record, and the record does not lie. THE CASE RECORD Name: Joseph Leyden Case number: 1:22-mj-180 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Complaint filed: August 10, 2022 Arrested: August 23, 2022 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.