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Obama-Holder Overruling Justice System

Mike

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It's all about letting guilty Blacks out of prison early.......................


U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a videotaped message Monday that he would reassign dozens of lawyers in the Justice Department to the understaffed pardons office to consider an expected flood of new clemency applications, and announced that the administration would detail new criteria later this week for considering such requests.

Holder said the process was designed to provide relief for current prisoners, who are not eligible for the lesser penalties for new offenders under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the disparity in punishment meted out to crack and powder cocaine offenders.

“There are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime — and who, as a result, will have to spend far more time in prison than they would if sentenced today for exactly the same crime,” Holder said. “This is simply not right.”

The Washington Post quoted an anonymous Justice Department official as saying that the department does not know how many of the expected thousands of applications might be granted.

The Post indicated that Deputy Attorney General James Cole would announce the new criteria on Wednesday.

Holder said in the videotaped statement that he would assign lawyers with backgrounds in both prosecution and criminal defense to review the applications.

"There are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime." -- Attorney General Eric Holder

The December commutations included Clarence Aaron, a Mobile man who was serving a life prison sentence for his role in a drug distribution ring in 1992. His case gained national attention and support from across the political spectrum after the Washington Post and ProPublica jointly reported that the pardon attorney in 2008 misrepresented the views of the top federal prosecutor in Mobile and the federal judge who imposed the original sentence.

Holder on Monday said those clemencies were a “sensible step” in addressing mandatory-minimum drug sentences are “profoundly out of date today.”

In addition to the eight commutations, Obama in December also pardoned 13 people – including one from Foley and one of Wetumpka – who already had completed their sentences.

The statement comes a week after White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler said at a conference at the New York University School of Law that the Obama administration was trying to improve the clemency process, according to Al- Jazeera America. The news agency quoted Reummler as saying that the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request included money for seven new positions in the pardon attorney’s office.

She also said that Obama met in March with the U.S. attorneys from each federal district, telling them to review clemency petitions and give “significant consideration” to granting them.

You can read the full Al-Jazeera America report here.
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Fair is only fair, why not just make it equal to those dealing marijuana in Colorado, California and Washington? Matter of fact, why not allow the sell of cocaine, crack, and meth... they are all just drugs... and most have demographic differences and we don't want to be biased.

I really think we should give child predators equal sentencing to johns caught soliciting a prostitute, its all sex and fair is fair.
 
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