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Defense Advocates Celebrate Acquittal of New Mexico Man Who Said Police Let Him Inside US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

Defense Advocates Celebrate Acquittal of New Mexico Man Who Said Police Let Him Inside US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
Matthew Martin, 43, of Santa Fe, N.M., outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Martin was acquitted of four misdemeanor charges on April 6, 2022. U.S. Department of Justice/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Joseph M. Hanneman
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Pundits and advocates for Jan. 6 defendants took to social media Wednesday to celebrate a New Mexico engineer’s acquittal on four misdemeanor charges from his time inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Judge Trevor N. McFadden found Matthew Martin, 43, of Santa Fe not guilty after a bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. that lasted about a day and a half. It was the first full acquittal of a Jan. 6 defendant through three completed trials.

Joseph M. Hanneman
Joseph M. Hanneman
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Joseph M. Hanneman is a former reporter for The Epoch Times who focussed on the January 6 Capitol incursion and its aftermath, as well as general Wisconsin news. In 2022, he helped to produce "The Real Story of Jan. 6," an Epoch Times documentary about the events that day. Joe has been a journalist for nearly 40 years.
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