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I think the purest source is this: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commutations-6 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-co

by jc4p 10y ago

I think the purest source is this: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commutations-6 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commut... but that lists a lot more clemencies

ascorbic 10y ago
I wonder how they decide on the commuted sentence. Timothy Tyler's sentence has been commuted, but he still has to spend another two years in prison.
ryanlol 10y ago
Not exactly relevant but it's somewhat interesting that so many people apparently deserved life sentences but not even a mention of any of them on google.
- TylerE 10y ago
  Huh? I picked one at random... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mancer-l-barrington-iii/mandatory-minimums-plea-from-behind-walls_b_8521552.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mancer-l-barrington-iii/mandat...? another http://legaliq.com/Case/United_States_V_Quentin_C_Adams http://legaliq.com/Case/United_States_V_Quentin_C_Adams and another http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/182/820/627468/ http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/182/... Those were literally the first 3 I tried.
toomanybeersies 10y ago
From one of the clemencies > use of a communication facility to facilitate the commission of a felony How exactly is this an additional crime to said felony? How does using a telephone make the crime more heinous? This seems like one of those laws that's designed to be guaranteed to add more charges, similar to such gems as "non-violently resisting arrest".
- marcoperaza 10y ago
  Non-violently resisting arrest is a real thing and should most certainly be a crime. E.g. you put your hands firmly across your chest and force the police to overpower you and force you into handcuffs. You're not attacking anyone, but you're resisting arrest in a way that threatens the safety of the arresting officers and obstructs the lawful execution of an arrest warrant. Also, when the charges are all for the same crime, the sentences are almost always concurrent, which means they run at the same time. It doesn't actually increase the length of the prison sentence.
  - fennecfoxen 10y ago
    > Non-violently resisting arrest is a real thing and should most certainly be a crime. Sure. How bad of a crime? Thirty days in jail? A week? A year? Is that in line with practice?

by jc4p 10y ago

ascorbic 10y ago

I wonder how they decide on the commuted sentence. Timothy Tyler's sentence has been commuted, but he still has to spend another two years in prison.

ryanlol 10y ago

Not exactly relevant but it's somewhat interesting that so many people apparently deserved life sentences but not even a mention of any of them on google.

TylerE 10y ago
Huh? I picked one at random... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mancer-l-barrington-iii/mandatory-minimums-plea-from-behind-walls_b_8521552.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mancer-l-barrington-iii/mandat...? another http://legaliq.com/Case/United_States_V_Quentin_C_Adams http://legaliq.com/Case/United_States_V_Quentin_C_Adams and another http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/182/820/627468/ http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/182/... Those were literally the first 3 I tried.

toomanybeersies 10y ago

From one of the clemencies > use of a communication facility to facilitate the commission of a felony How exactly is this an additional crime to said felony? How does using a telephone make the crime more heinous? This seems like one of those laws that's designed to be guaranteed to add more charges, similar to such gems as "non-violently resisting arrest".

marcoperaza 10y ago
Non-violently resisting arrest is a real thing and should most certainly be a crime. E.g. you put your hands firmly across your chest and force the police to overpower you and force you into handcuffs. You're not attacking anyone, but you're resisting arrest in a way that threatens the safety of the arresting officers and obstructs the lawful execution of an arrest warrant. Also, when the charges are all for the same crime, the sentences are almost always concurrent, which means they run at the same time. It doesn't actually increase the length of the prison sentence.
- fennecfoxen 10y ago
  > Non-violently resisting arrest is a real thing and should most certainly be a crime. Sure. How bad of a crime? Thirty days in jail? A week? A year? Is that in line with practice?