Andrew Crumbly, of Fort Myers, was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison on February 14, 2006 after being convicted of ‘possession with intent to distribute a detectable amount of cocaine base, crack cocaine (three counts)’.
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“They embody the president’s belief that America is a nation of second chances”. “Paul Ryan has said that the House will vote on criminal justice reform when they return in September and Mitch McConnell must make the same commitment”.
More commutations are expected before the president leaves the White House next January.
If you do the math, with his total of 562 total commutations made during his presidency, Obama has now used his constitutional clemency power (most of which were made this year) to shorten the sentences of more federal inmates than any president since Calvin Coolidge. In the context of that project, he asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review petitions for commutations from inmates around the country.
Critics also say the commutations have often come at the expense of traditional pardons, which are more useful to former offenders looking for jobs or seeking to restore their voting or gun rights.
“We are not done yet”, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said.
“It is critical that both the House and the Senate continue to work on a bipartisan basis to get a criminal justice reform bill to the president’s desk”, he wrote.
Wilson Henderson, of Hollywood, had been serving a life term in prison since 1992 for cocaine base possession with intent to distribute and use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
The commutations give a second chance to such people, but “only legislation can bring about lasting change to the federal system”, a White-House news release about similar commutations in June said.
Davies was one of more than 30 arrested in a 2007 drug crackdown in Indian River County by a variety of agencies.
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One man had been given 20 years for possessing a large amount of meth, the other – 34 years, partly due to additional firearm charges. “Those guidelines”, law professorOsler told NPR, “apply to inmates who have spent at least 10 years behind bars for nonviolent drug crimes – small players, not kingpins – people who would’ve received less prison time if they were convicted of laws on the books today”.
