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President Obama could grant clemency to “hundreds, perhaps thousands” - Holder
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:58 pm
quote:
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized drug sentences doled out under “the old regime” in a video Monday announcing the Obama administration’s “Clemency Project 2014.”
“In 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act reducing unfair disparities in sentences imposed on people for offenses involving different forms of cocaine. But there’s 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. This is simply not right,” Holder says in the video
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Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:59 pm to Alahunter
Anyone want to bet that Rand Paul put pressure on them?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:00 pm to Alahunter
Obama was elected in 2008. If he really cared about this issue, he would have taken care of it a long time ago.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:01 pm to Alahunter
Is it wrong that I really don't have an issue with this... At least on the surface.
If someone is convicted and ordered to serve 10 number of years for a crime and the law is subsequently changed for new offenders to have a maximum of 5, shouldn't the old sentences be reduced to whatever the new max is
Maybe I'm thinking about it to simply
If someone is convicted and ordered to serve 10 number of years for a crime and the law is subsequently changed for new offenders to have a maximum of 5, shouldn't the old sentences be reduced to whatever the new max is
Maybe I'm thinking about it to simply
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:01 pm to Alahunter
Typical. Obama/Holder looking out for drug dealers and users, but continually sticking it to taxpayers, Christians, and Whitey
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:09 pm to Alahunter
On its face, I have absolutely no problem with this.
Our drug laws have been inane for a long time.
Our drug laws have been inane for a long time.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:11 pm to Alahunter
Just earned a whole new voting block for the Dems 
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:11 pm to Lsut81
quote:
If someone is convicted and ordered to serve 10 number of years for a crime and the law is subsequently changed for new offenders to have a maximum of 5, shouldn't the old sentences be reduced to whatever the new max is
If only our criminal justice system was allowed to use common sense..........
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:11 pm to Alahunter
I don't like his use of the word "regime" at all. I don't like him at all either.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:12 pm to BamaFan89
On the surface, it looks like... it's not fair crack dealers and users have to do more time than blow dealers and users.. so it will be crackheads getting the pardons.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:13 pm to Green Chili Tiger
quote:
If only our criminal justice system was allowed to use common sense..........
It's common fricking sense IMO
That's like saying slaves before the emancipation proclamation aren't free, but any other Africans coming to the country after are free...
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:15 pm to Lsut81
quote:Frankly, that would be my view. It aint the way it is, but it should be.
If someone is convicted and ordered to serve 10 number of years for a crime and the law is subsequently changed for new offenders to have a maximum of 5, shouldn't the old sentences be reduced to whatever the new max is
Otherwise, it presents an absurdity.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:19 pm to NikolaiJakov
quote:
Obama/Holder looking out for drug dealers and users, but continually sticking it to taxpayers, Christians, and Whitey
That's breathtakingly stupid.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:19 pm to Lsut81
I wonder how many will have used weapons in their crimes, only to have plead down for the drug convictions they have. Any chance any violent drug offenders are pardoned?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:20 pm to Lsut81
quote:
It's common fricking sense IMO
I agree.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:22 pm to Alahunter
quote:
I wonder how many will have used weapons in their crimes, only to have plead down for the drug convictions they have. Any chance any violent drug offenders are pardoned?
Now that is one thing that needs to be looked at, which is why I said "On the surface".
I would hope that the AGs/DAs would go through and take a look at the cases prior to just letting them out.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:25 pm to Alahunter
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so it will be crackheads getting the pardons.
What makes "crackheads" any different from "cokeheads?"
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:25 pm to BamaFan89
One likely votes Dem, the other likely votes Rep?
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:28 pm to BamaFan89
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What makes "crackheads" any different from "cokeheads?"
$
...or lack thereof.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:33 pm to Alahunter
Sounds good to me. Pardons are a different discussion.
This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 4:35 pm
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