But, but, but, these are just good guys unfairly incarcerated and they just need a chance.
Chance given, chance blown-
A San Antonio man who was freed from life in prison by President Barack Obama is back behind bars after allegedly crashing his vehicle into another motorist and undercover police cars while fleeing from a drug deal Thursday.
Robert M. Gill, 68, whose life sentence for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy was commuted by Obama and expired in 2015, was profiled last year in the Express-News about his readjustment to life on the outside.
He was taken to federal court Friday, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad ordered him held without bond pending a bail hearing on Feb. 16. Gill is charged with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
He again faces a potential sentence with a mandatory minimum, five years, and could get up to 40.
Gill was one of about 1,700 federal inmates whose sentences Obama commuted as part of a broader campaign to give relief to nonviolent offenders serving long prison terms that dated to a frenzied period in the nation’s war on drugs.
In interviews last year, Gill said he sustained hope even as his three co-defendants died behind bars.
“I believed there were people in government with rational minds who sooner or later would realize that the sentence wasn’t fair,” Gill said last year. “Yes, you have the thought that you’re going to die in prison — that’s a human reaction. But there’s always the possibility that they’ll acknowledge the injustice.”
Gill was employed as a paralegal for local criminal defense law firm LaHood & Calfas.
Sounds like he didn’t want to be let out. Many long-termers eventually conclude that they do better in prison and don’t want to be let back out again.
Shades of Rodney King.
He is just the first among the multitude who will become repeat offenders. I’ll bet that at least twenty percent will be locked back up within a year or two.
@SineWaveII – It’s called institutionalization. It happens outside of prison, too. Some people are so institutionalized by govt that the idea of reducing or eliminating govt that they refuse to deal with the concept even when the govt abuses them repeatedly and becomes ever more strict and stupid.
How many innocent people will be killed by that 1700?
Yes we can!
Smart power!!!
Good thing O’Preezy’s first order of business in 2009 was to close GITMO.
Why not just let him make a run for Mexico?
1700 pardons? they actually think there are 1700 criminals unduly incarcerated? 1700 times they think our court system failed?
no way. That bastard planned this
Yet Hillary still walks among us…
And that’s why they call it “dope”.
🙂
Staying free, honest, and prosperous is hard work. Lock the bastard up and throw away the key.
And the dog returns to his vomit
Deyz all innocent ya know! Jus axe dem!
Is James Earl Ray still in jail?
Meh. Just another Obama failure, and like all of his failures, the MSM will absolutely fail to comment on , let alone actually report on.
Make them all servants in the Nobama
household. They’re safe right?
@LocoBlancoSaltine Obama walks among us leaving his wrath for us to suffer. I despise them all – all liberals.
I head that he was working for the law firm of Dewey, Cheetum and Howe, LLP.
Barack Hussein Obama’s only goal was to free this drug industry savage so that he could continue to destroy American lives. Only thing that ever motivated Obama.