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Matthew Thomas Mglej

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Matthew Thomas Mglej is a violinist from Hillsboro, Oregon, and a man who once took a civil rights case all the way to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. IDENTITY, NOW ESTABLISHED This page was previously left blank because the row carried a name and nothing else. It is now matched on two independent identifiers: the exact full name Matthew Thomas Mglej and the hometown of Hillsboro, Oregon, both appearing in the federal January 6 defendant record and in the Oregon court record. That is the standard this archive uses and it has been met. THE JANUARY 6 CASE FACT: Matthew Mglej was arrested on August 1, 2024, in Tualatin, Oregon, more than three and a half years after January 6, 2021. He was among the last people charged. FACT: He was charged with four counts. All four were misdemeanor or petty offenses. No violence, no assault, no weapon, no theft, no conspiracy, no property damage. FACT: On January 24, 2025, the court granted the government motion to dismiss the case with prejudice. Matthew Thomas Mglej was never convicted and never sentenced. With prejudice means the case cannot be brought again. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. The dismissal followed four days later. THE 2014 PORTLAND MATTER, STATED PLAINLY This archive does not hide a court record and it does not let a half told story stand. Anyone who searches this man's name is going to find a 2014 arrest. They are going to find the outcome in the same place. FACT: In May 2014, Matthew Mglej was arrested in Portland, Oregon on an indecent exposure charge after staging a nude protest outside the federal courthouse downtown. He played violin and meditated during the demonstration. FACT: The City of Portland dropped all charges. He was never prosecuted for it and never convicted of it. This is not a claim, it is the first paragraph of a published federal appellate opinion: Mglej v. Multnomah County, No. 16-35126, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, decided March 19, 2018, which states that he was arrested and that "After the City of Portland dropped all charges," he filed suit. FACT: He then brought a federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against the City, the County, and the officers, represented by the law firm Perkins Coie. His assault and battery claims went to a jury and the appeal went to the Ninth Circuit. He lost. That is in the record too, and it belongs here right alongside the rest. A dropped charge is not a conviction. This archive will not let it read like one. CASE RECORD Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Docket: CourtListener RECAP, gov.uscourts.dcd.271147 Arrest: August 1, 2024, Tualatin, Oregon Disposition: Dismissed with prejudice, January 24, 2025. No conviction. No sentence. SOURCES Mglej v. Multnomah County, No. 16-35126, 9th Cir., March 19, 2018, via FindLaw KGW, Naked Portland violinist loses lawsuit NPR Jan. 6 Archive database record for Mglej, Matthew Thomas Court filing mirrored at CourtListener RECAP This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.