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Matthew Jason Beddingfield

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## Matthew Jason Beddingfield’s federal January 6 record Matthew Jason Beddingfield was prosecuted in *United States v. Beddingfield*, No. 1:22-cr-00066-CJN, before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols. This profile separates complaint allegations, prosecution and defense positions, the admitted plea record, the sentence, and clemency. None of those legal events is presented as a complete judgment about Beddingfield’s moral character. ## Complaint, arrest, and pretrial litigation An FBI Statement of Facts attested on February 2, 2022 set out probable-cause allegations under nine federal statutes. Those allegations were not findings of guilt. A later government detention filing states that agents arrested Beddingfield on February 7, 2022; DOJ’s public announcement, issued February 8, described him as arrested “today.” The archive preserves that one-day source discrepancy and uses February 7 in the structured arrest field because the filed detention motion supplies the more specific chronology. The government sought pretrial detention and described evidence and other circumstances it believed supported detention. The defense separately sought release and disputed the government’s position. Those filings are advocacy by the parties, not independent archive conclusions. ## Guilty plea and sentence On February 16, 2023, Beddingfield pleaded guilty to Count Three, assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers under 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1). DOJ’s plea announcement describes the admitted conduct and must be read as the government’s account of the plea record. The other eight indictment counts were later dismissed on the government’s motion pursuant to the plea agreement. On July 11, 2023, Judge Nichols sentenced Beddingfield to 38 months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, $2,000 in restitution. The archive does not treat the sentence as proof of personal character. ## January 2025 pardon Proclamation 10887 granted full pardons to covered January 6 defendants other than the fourteen people named for commutations. The Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public certificate-recipient list contains the exact entry “BEDDINGFIELD, MATTHEW JASON.” An individual certificate PDF has not yet been captured. ## Factual questions ### Was Beddingfield convicted on all nine original counts? No. He pleaded guilty to one count under 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1). The remaining eight counts were dismissed on the government’s motion after the plea. ### What sentence was imposed? The sentence was 38 months’ imprisonment, 24 months’ supervised release, $2,000 restitution. ### Was his January 6 conviction pardoned? Yes. The January 20, 2025 proclamation covered his federal January 6 offense, and the Office of the Pardon Attorney lists him as a certificate recipient. The archive does not describe a pardon as an acquittal or as proof of guilt or innocence. ### Where are the source records? The principal records are connected below, including the [FBI Statement of Facts](/case/documents/matthew-beddingfield-fbi-statement-of-facts-2022-02-02), [government detention motion](/case/documents/matthew-beddingfield-government-detention-motion-2022-03-01), [DOJ plea record](/case/documents/matthew-beddingfield-doj-guilty-plea-2023-02-16), and [DOJ sentencing record](/case/documents/matthew-beddingfield-doj-sentencing-2023-07-11). Related evidence can be explored through [Case Nexus](/case/nexus), and corrections or additional primary material can be submitted through the archive’s evidence-submission path. ## Editorial boundary The site may analyze January 6 prosecutions as examples of alleged or documented Biden-era DOJ weaponization. That editorial position is separate from the underlying filings. Government allegations, defense advocacy, judicial actions, admitted facts, dismissed counts, and unresolved source conflicts remain labeled according to their sources.