Final Jan. 6 Proud Boys convictions dismissed after pardons

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly granted the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the Jan. 6 convictions of four Proud Boys—Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola—with prejudice, permanently closing the cases after Trump’s mass pardons and commutations. While noting the executive branch’s role in issuing pardons, the judge said he did not approve the decision and that denying the motion would not revive the convictions or trigger a retrial. The defendants were convicted in 2023 on multiple felonies (most on seditious conspiracy) and had sentences later commuted by Trump.