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Matthew Martin

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Matthew Martin is an engineer out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Top secret clearance. Federal defense contractor working at Los Alamos. [FACT - NBC News; ClearanceJobs] Then he became the first January 6 defendant a federal judge acquitted on every single charge. Read that again. Not a plea. Not a reduced count. Not guilty. All of it. WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS Matthew Martin was arrested in April 2021 and charged by criminal information with four misdemeanors. He pleaded not guilty. He did not fold. He took it to trial. [FACT - DOJ case record 1:21-cr-394] On April 6, 2022, after a two day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden found Matthew Martin not guilty of all charges. [FACT - NBC News, CBS News, UPI, April 6 2022] The court found it plausible that Martin believed he had permission to enter, because officers did not try to stop him. The court described his conduct as minimal and non serious. He did not crowd police. He did not protest inside. He did not carry a flag through the building. [FACT - Law and Crime and WUSA9 reporting on the court's findings] That is what a trial is for. That is what the presumption of innocence looks like when a judge actually applies it. WHAT IT COST HIM ANYWAY Martin was fired from his Los Alamos position after charges were filed in April 2021. His security clearance went into limbo. Winning the case did not hand his career back. He still had to find an employer willing to sponsor a clearance again. [FACT - ClearanceJobs, April 11 2022] Acquitted on every count and still paying. That is the part nobody covers. CLEMENCY Matthew Martin never needed a pardon. He was acquitted nearly three years before the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation ever issued. [DOCUMENTED INFERENCE from the April 6 2022 verdict date and the proclamation date - Federal Register 2025-01950] THE CASE RECORD Name: Matthew Martin Case number: 1:21-cr-394 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested April 2021. Charged via criminal information June 9, 2021. Arraigned July 2, 2021, pleaded not guilty to all counts. Verdict: FOUND NOT GUILTY by the Court on all charges, April 6, 2022, after a misdemeanor bench trial. DOJ record: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/martin-matthew WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE One acquittal speaks for one man. Nothing here decides any other case. WHAT IT DOES PROVE A federal judge looked at the government's evidence against Matthew Martin of Santa Fe, New Mexico and said the burden was not carried. The record does not lie. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.