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Joshua Calvin Hughes

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Joshua Calvin Hughes of East Helena, Montana turned himself in. Nobody kicked his door. Nobody dragged him out at dawn. He saw the news, saw the FBI was looking for him, and he walked into the Helena Police Department on his own two feet. FACT: Joshua Hughes and his brother Jerod Hughes voluntarily turned themselves in to Helena Police on January 11, 2021, after seeing news reports that the FBI was trying to identify them. Source: KTVH, Montana connected Jan. 6 cases four years later. Five days. That is how long it took the East Helena brothers to walk in the front door. THE LEGAL FIGHT FACT: Joshua Calvin Hughes pleaded guilty to Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. FACT: He was sentenced on November 22, 2022 to 38 months in prison, three years supervised release, and $2,000 restitution. Source: DOJ defendant record, case 1:21-cr-106. FACT: In June 2024 the United States Supreme Court decided Fischer v. United States and narrowed the obstruction statute the government had used against hundreds of January 6 defendants. Joshua Hughes was one of the people it reached. In July 2024 the court cut five months off his sentence, taking it from 38 months to 33. Source: Yellowstone Public Radio, July 8, 2024, and the Helena Independent Record. Same statute. Same defendant. Different answer once the Supreme Court read the law out loud. The record does not lie. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a proclamation granting pardons and commutation of sentences for offenses relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Source: Federal Register, 90 FR 8331. THE CASE RECORD Name: Joshua Calvin Hughes Hometown: East Helena, Montana Case number: 1:21-cr-106 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Docket: arrested 2/1/21, indicted 2/10/21, arraigned 3/25/21 and pleaded not guilty to all counts, superseding indictment 12/1/21, pleaded guilty 8/25/22, sentenced 11/22/22 Sentence: 38 months, later reduced to 33 months after Fischer Clemency: January 20, 2025 WHAT NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: His occupation, his family, and his life in East Helena before and after are not in the public reporting we can verify. If you know Joshua Calvin Hughes, the record has a hole in it and you can fill it. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: The guilty plea is in the record and stays in the record. WHAT IT DOES PROVE: A man from East Helena walked himself into a police station, and years later the highest court in the country said the charge the government leaned on had been stretched too far. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.