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Matthew Purdy

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Matthew Purdy is a Hudson Valley man who took his case all the way to a jury and beat half of it. Most people plead. He did not. Matthew Purdy, of the Kent and New Windsor area of New York's Hudson Valley, was charged alongside his brother Gregory Richard Purdy and his uncle Robert Turner. Three men from one family. (FACT: The Highlands Current, American Gulag, DOJ) Back home, the Purdys were known for something else entirely. Binghamton-area reporting identified them as the buyers of Davis College, the private college in Johnson City, New York. These are men who were putting money into an educational institution in their own region. (FACT: Binghamton Homepage / WIVT) On the day itself, court records describe Matthew Purdy filming the interactions between police and the crowd from outside it. (FACT: statement of facts, via American Gulag) He was charged with four counts. All four were misdemeanors. Not one felony. Not one assault count. The legal fight, and this is the part that matters. Matthew Purdy was arrested November 10, 2021 and released on personal recognizance eight days later, on November 18, 2021. He was indicted January 14, 2022 and pleaded not guilty to every count at his January 28, 2022 arraignment before Judge Royce C. Lamberth. (FACT: American Gulag docket summary) Then he did what almost nobody in the Capitol docket did. He went to trial. The jury convicted him on two counts, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. It did not convict him on all four. He was charged with four and a jury of citizens found the government had proven two. (FACT: WUSA9) That is what the right to a trial is for. On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency proclamation reached the January 6 cases, including misdemeanor convictions like Matthew Purdy's. CASE RECORD Case numbers: 1:21-mj-644, charged with co-defendants under 1:22-cr-00019 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge: Royce C. Lamberth Arrested: November 10, 2021. Released on personal recognizance November 18, 2021. Charges: Four misdemeanor counts. Convicted by jury on two. Co-defendants: Gregory Richard Purdy, Robert Turner. Disposition: Covered by the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. DOJ docket page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/purdy-matthew This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.