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Mark Jefferson Leffingwell

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Mark Jefferson Leffingwell is an Iraq War combat veteran from Seattle, Washington. Before he was a January 6 case number, he was a soldier who volunteered and went. [FACT] HIS SERVICE Mark Leffingwell served in the Washington Army National Guard from 2005 to 2009 and deployed to Iraq with the 81st Brigade. [FACT, reported by KING 5 and The Seattle Times and reflected in his sentencing record.] He was honorably discharged in 2009. [FACT] At sentencing, the court weighed his military service, his family situation and his clean criminal history. Seattle knew him as a working man in his early fifties with no record at all before that day. THE LEGAL FIGHT Straight from the docket, no spin. [FACT, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, case 1:21-cr-5.] Arrested January 7, 2021, one of the very first January 6 arrests in the country. Indicted January 11, 2021. Arraigned January 29, 2021 and pleaded not guilty to all counts. Superseding indictment issued April 9, 2021, arraigned June 3, 2021, again pleaded not guilty to all counts. Plea agreement entered October 26, 2021 to count 2s. Sentenced February 10, 2022 to six months of incarceration, 24 months of supervised release, 200 hours of community service and $2,000 in restitution. Prosecutors asked for more than two years. The judge gave six months, and the reason was the man in front of him: an Iraq veteran with a family and no prior record. [FACT, sentencing coverage in The Seattle Times and Law and Crime.] Mark Leffingwell told the court he was embarrassed and ashamed. [THEIR ACCOUNT, quoted in contemporaneous reporting.] JANUARY 20, 2025 On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued clemency across the January 6 cases. [FACT] Mark Jefferson Leffingwell had completed his sentence years earlier. [DOCUMENTED INFERENCE that the clemency reached his conviction.] CASE RECORD Case number: 1:21-cr-5 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: January 7, 2021 Sentenced: February 10, 2022 DOJ docket page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/leffingwell-mark Seattle, this one is yours. If you served with him in the 81st, or you know his family, add what the headlines left out. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.