Fred Charles, Jr. of Stopover was charged in 2002 with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams of cocaine and use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
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This condenses Haslip’s prison sentence to a total of about 14 years.
Corey Lyndell Blount, sentenced in 1999, had his sentence reduced to 30 years.
Charles Lee Brandon, 33, of Bay City was sentenced in the Eastern District of MI in 2008 to almost 22 years imprisonment and eight years of probation for possession with an intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base.
Daniel Williams, 42, who in 2008 pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine and cocaine base, had been sentenced to 240 months in prison with 10 years supervised release. He was sentenced in 1989 to life in prison, but Obama’s commutation will end his prison term on August 30, 2017. “They are, for example, the 35 individuals whose life sentences were commuted today”.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates lauded the move in a statement Tuesday, predicting that the president would grant more commutations in his final months in office.
Eggleston says he expects Obama to continue using his clemency authority through the end of his administration. Eggleston says the president isn’t looking to try and achieve a certain number of cases, more so give second chances to the right cases. In addition to the 214 commutations granted earlier this month, Obama has granted the greatest number of commutations for a single month of any president.
The commutations highlight the need for criminal justice reform legislation, including reforms that address excessive mandatory minimum sentences, he wrote. However, legislation aimed at ending unduly harsh sentencing for drug offenses remain stalled on Capitol Hill. He’s now expected to be released in December.
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At the same time, President Obama knows that clemency alone can not fix decades of overly punitive sentencing policies, or make our criminal justice system more fair and more just on the whole.
