Joe Biden granted clemency to 16 criminals on Wednesday, with 11 people being granted pardons and 5 commutations.
The vast majority of the people granted pardons have been convicted of drug offenses equivalent to distributing cocaine and having possession of laborious medicine.
Right here’s the whole listing by the DOJ:
- Leshay Nicole Rhoton of Bristol, Tennessee. Offense: “Conspiracy to own with the intent to distribute 280 grams or extra of cocaine base and 5 kilograms or extra of cocaine.”
- Margaret Ann Vandyke of Ellenville, New York. Offense: Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute a managed substance (crack cocaine)
- Jason Hernandez of McKinney, Texas. Offense: “Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute managed substances; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine/cocaine hydrochloride; distribution of a managed substance inside 1,000 ft of a faculty.”
- Jeffrey Alan Lewis of Douglasville, Georgia. Offense: Use of a communication facility to facilitate a felony.
- Beverly Denise Holcy of Palatka, Florida. Offense: Knowingly, willfully, and deliberately distributing a amount of cocaine base, generally referred to as “crack”.
- Jesse Mosley of Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Offense: “Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; use of a communication facility in furtherance of a drug offense.”
- Bobby Darrell Lowery of Jackson, Mississippi. Offense: “Possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute; felon in possession of a firearm.”
- Katrina Polk of Washington, D.C. Offense: “Conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.”
- Glenn Ray Royal Jr. of San Antonio, Texas. Offense: “Conspiracy to fabricate, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.”
- Ricky Donnell Tyler of Columbia, South Carolina Offense: “Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base (three counts).”
- Alexis Sutton of New Haven, Connecticut. Offense: “Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute, and to distribute, a mix and substance containing a detectable quantity of heroin.”
- Stacy L. Wilder of Albany, New York. Offense: “Conspiracy to own and distribute cocaine base.”
- Pilar Alejandra Yelicie-Rodriguez of Fairfax, Virginia. Offense: “Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or extra of cocaine and 50 grams or extra of cocaine base.”
- Daequon Charles Davis of Johnson Metropolis, Tennessee. Offense: “Conspiracy to distribute or to own with intent to distribute 280 grams or extra of cocaine.”
- Jophaney Hyppolite of Miami. Offense: “Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute greater than 280 grams cocaine base; distribution and aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine base.”
- Xavier Martez Parnell of Clarksville, Tennessee. Offense: “Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute managed substances, together with 500 grams or extra of cocaine and 280 grams or extra of cocaine base.”
President Joe Biden used his government powers to grant clemency to greater than a dozen people who served sentences for non-violent drug costs https://t.co/5U76eRUJmC
— Bloomberg (@enterprise) April 25, 2024
Per The Related Press:
President Joe Biden has granted clemency to 16 individuals who have been convicted of non-violent drug crimes, issuing pardons to 11 women and men and commuting the sentences of 5 different individuals within the newest use of his clemency energy to handle racial disparities within the justice system.
Biden stated in a press release Wednesday that April is Second Likelihood Month and that lots of the people getting clemency had acquired “disproportionately longer” sentences than they’d have below present legislation.
The Democratic president is campaigning for reelection in November and is grappling with the best way to enhance assist from communities of colour that closely supported him over Republican Donald Trump within the 2020 election. The 2 rivals are headed for a probable rematch in November.
After Biden granted clemency to the 16 people, Kamala Harris invited actuality TV star Kim Kardashian to debate prison justice reform on the White Home.
US Vice President Kamala Harris hosted reality-television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian on the White Home to debate prison justice reform, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to extra individuals convicted of nonviolent drug offenses https://t.co/4gaef5y1P8 pic.twitter.com/9VXmuGz9Oq
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 26, 2024
