Trump releases pot prisoners jailed for life under Biden’s 1994 crime bill – IOTW Report

Trump releases pot prisoners jailed for life under Biden’s 1994 crime bill

NYP: President Donald Trump on Wednesday released seven prisoners with life sentences for marijuana — including some jailed without parole under President-elect Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill.

Paraplegic Michael Pelletier, 65, and Corvain Cooper, 41, are among the men who received prison commutations from Trump.

Pelletier had a life sentence for smuggling pot from Canada into Maine in the early 2000s. Both jurisdictions later legalized the drug.

Cooper had a life sentence for his role transporting marijuana from California to North Carolina, also under the three-strikes provision of Biden’s law.

The crime bill’s mandatory life sentence for a third serious drug conviction was reduced to 25 years by Trump’s First Step Act, but the reduction wasn’t retroactive. Cooper’s initial two strikes were later thrown out, but that, too, didn’t apply retroactively. more

h/t Old Mechanic.

Joe’s party was lame.

17 Comments on Trump releases pot prisoners jailed for life under Biden’s 1994 crime bill

  1. @FarmWife, ‘Burly Alive’:
    antifa.com was registered in 2002…?!

    @Hunter (Thompson? Biden?):
    Where did it take you before that…?!

    And if antifa.com was a thing for the past NINETEEN YEARS, why weren’t they busted in the wee hours like Roger Stone? Or deplatformed? Or…

    – – –

    WHOIS search results
    Domain Name: ANTIFA.COM
    Registry Domain ID: 85915752_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
    Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
    Updated Date: 2021-01-21T02:09:15Z
    Creation Date: 2002-04-24T12:35:11Z
    Registry Expiry Date: 2025-04-24T12:35:10Z
    Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
    Registrar IANA ID: 1068
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    Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
    Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
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    DNSSEC: unsigned

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  2. FreedomCat – “Oh don’t forget the star studded festival tonight at 8:30! Tom Hanks will MC. Holly weird at its finest! I’m so sick to my stomach and don’t think I can take it….”

    Vote with your feet and your pocketbook.

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  3. PS Friend and I were trying to figure out the pardon list and were perplexed…
    Thanks for this; we’re starting to get it.
    Sort of like bringing Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, and Kathy Shelton to the debate…
    I bet some other folks are starting to get it too…

    I think President Trump said something like ‘we will see you soon’…

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  4. @ Farm Wife
    The domain registration info is available on every registrar’s website.
    Go to the menu (at the bottom of the page on godaddy.com) and click on WHOIS. It will give you registration info for any domain you want to search. Many have a privacy layer on ownership but you can still see when a domain was originally registered.

    I thought it was curious that antifa.com was registered in 2002. Was ‘anti facist’ a thing then? Was Soros planning ahead? Or did they buy the name from a defunct ‘anti fat’ company or what?

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