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Therese Borgerding

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Therese Borgerding is a 58 year old woman from Piqua, Ohio. Small town, Miami County, western Ohio. She is one of the very few January 6 defendants who did the hardest thing available to her: she said not guilty, and she made the government prove it to a jury. Most people took a plea. She took a trial. ## The legal fight Therese Borgerding was arrested on July 28, 2021, in Piqua, Ohio. She was charged with civil disorder plus four misdemeanors. She pleaded NOT GUILTY to all of it. On April 26, 2024, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found her guilty on all counts. On September 4, 2024, the court sentenced her to 50 days of incarceration, 130 days of location monitoring, 36 months of supervised release, a $170 special assessment, and $2,000 in restitution. Fifty days. That is the sentence after a full federal jury trial. ## Clemency On January 20, 2025, Therese Borgerding received a full pardon under the presidential proclamation covering January 6 convictions. ## What the record shows FACT: Therese Borgerding of Piqua, Ohio exercised her Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. That right costs something in the federal system and she paid it. FACT: she was never charged with assaulting an officer. She was never charged with a weapon offense. The felony count against her was civil disorder. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: the government's investigation of her began with an anonymous tip about Facebook posts, per the charging record. An anonymous tipster started a three year federal prosecution of a woman in her fifties from a town of 20,000 people. ## What this does not prove A jury verdict is a legal finding about conduct on one day. It is not a description of who Therese Borgerding is, what she has done with the rest of her 58 years, or what she is worth to the people in Piqua who know her. ## Case record - Case: 1:21-mj-541, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrest: July 28, 2021, Piqua, Ohio - Plea: Not guilty, all counts - Verdict: Guilty, jury trial, April 26, 2024 - Sentence: 50 days incarceration, 130 days location monitoring, 36 months supervised release, $2,000 restitution, September 4, 2024 - Clemency: Full pardon, January 20, 2025 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.