The commutation would have gotten him out nine months earlier.
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Trump signed a commutation of her sentence on June 6th.
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But the person she knew had secured her a commutation.
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In her Guardian piece, she did not directly acknowledge Obama's commutation.
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One sharp example was the handling of two federal commutation petitions.
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The White House declined to comment on Ms. Manning's commutation request.
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Another official said that Mr. Kushner had merely favored a commutation.
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Another official said that Mr. Kushner had merely favored a commutation.
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Manning's commutation came four days before the end of Obama's administration.
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A letter said the governor is not considering requests for commutation.
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Mr. Obama's grant of commutation reduces the sentence to 20 years.
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The Alice Johnson commutation exposes this system for what it is.
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Trump's commutation of the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, 57, marks his first commutation and the second use of his clemency powers since taking office, including his controversial pardon earlier this year of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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HUNT: President Trump, referenced that phone call today discussing a potential commutation.
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However, he denied that the commutation was granted because of Assange's offer.
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I have not granted a commutation of a death sentence until now.
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What are we to make of the commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence?
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When he or she grants a commutation, the release may be immediate.
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Rod Blagojevich formally filed a petition for commutation of sentence last June.
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The commutation of Rubashkin's sentence is not the equivalent of a pardon.
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He viewed a commutation application, filed in November, as Manning's best hope.
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Obama's commutation means she'll be out May 17, after just 7 years served.
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Republicans, including Trump's spokesman, criticized the commutation as a dangerous precedent for leakers.
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He refuses to give up his friends...and is granted the commutation anyway.
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Two, Manafort may be playing for a longshot pardon or commutation from Trump.
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The last commutation to life in prison occurred nine years ago, when Gov.
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It was one of 209 grants of commutation by the president announced Tuesday.
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Read the White House's statement on the commutation: Today, President Donald J. Trump granted a commutation to Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who has served almost 22 years in Federal prison for a first-time criminal offense.
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According to news reports, Bush did not consult the Justice Department on the commutation.
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The only possibility of freedom, they determined, would be a presidential pardon or commutation.
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After the commutation, Lucas predicted an "80 percent chance" he would walk free someday.
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Rick Perry after the Texas parole board recommended his commutation to a life sentence.
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President Trump has yet to announce a grant of a single pardon or commutation.
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The news of the commutation felt surreal to Ms. Hall, according to Ms. Lambert.
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His commutation garnered widespread support from lawmakers from both parties, notably from Democratic Reps.
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No, the Rubashkin commutation didn't gain the kind of headlines the Jerusalem decision did.
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Kilpatrick appeared to be acknowledging his guilt in the commutation filing, the newspaper noted.
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In Texas, the governor granted a rare death row commutation for Thomas Bartlett Whitaker.
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The commutation of his sentence has drawn bipartisan criticism, including from Illinois Republican Reps.
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A commutation, by contrast, makes a punishment milder without wiping out the underlying conviction.
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Go deeper: 527 Oklahoma inmates to be freed in largest commutation in U.S. history
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Under Mr. Obama's commutation order, Mr. Lopez Rivera's prison sentence will expire May 20113.
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And on Tuesday they issued a joint statement voicing their disappointment at the commutation.
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In November, 22020 Oklahoma inmates were published in the largest commutation in U.S. history.
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A pardon and a commutation are two different types of clemency, Ms. Nirider said.
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Mass pardons On Tuesday, Obama granted commutation of sentence to 209 prisoners and pardons to 64 more, including the commutation of sentence to former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.
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Hollander said she only learned of the commutation around the time Obama made the announcement.
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Notably, today's commutation means many of the resulting procedures may take place after Manning's release.
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But has Obama really made history with his commutation rate, as the White House contends?
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If I were representing Manafort, I would consider asking for a commutation, not a pardon.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again floated a sentence commutation for former Illinois Gov.
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He also sought a commutation with President Obama, but it was never granted, it added.
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The president floated a commutation for Blagojevich last year, but has yet to take action.
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That being said, Vargas has heard rumors about a potential commutation in the coming days.
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The Department of Justice confirmed to CNN that Winner has a pending petition for commutation.
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In December 20013, Clinton's advisers persuaded him not to issue a commutation to former Rep.
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An attorney for Manning, meanwhile, voiced gratitude for Obama's commutation during a MSNBC interview Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump's commutation of Alice Johnson's life sentence is the right thing to do.
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This is not how a president is supposed to exercise his pardon or commutation powers.
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Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had been funneling messages of support for Blagojevich's commutation to the President, two sources said, and the disgraced governor's wife had also taken her appeals for a commutation directly to Trump through appearances on Fox News.
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An outpouring of support from other advocacy groups also came out in response to Manning's commutation.
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Getting a commutation doesn't carry the benefits after being released from jail that a pardon does.
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Abbott's decision followed a unanimous decision for commutation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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This time, she was told of the surprise commutation and immediately went online for more information.
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And on Tuesday, Blagojevich filed a petition with the Justice Department asking Trump for the commutation.
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The Oklahoma parole board considered the cases of 814 inmates and recommended commutation for 527 inmates.
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Goodman's statement said the petition for commutation argues that Blagojevich's sentence is unfair, among other points.
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So this could be the rare situation in which a commutation is better than a pardon.
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Rubashkin had served eight years of his sentence when Trump announced the commutation in December 2017.
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But the mass commutation isn't the only effort to reform criminal justice reform in the state.
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An additional 2,108 petitions for pardons and 8,833 commutation bids remain pending, according to the office.
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But there were factors besides Mr. Huckabee's commutation that led to outrage over Mr. Clemmons's crime.
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A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to VICE News' requests to confirm Blagojevich's commutation.
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ERROL MORRIS: Would it be a commutation to life if they decided not to retry it?
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Hall It was the third commutation application filed with the state parole board on her behalf.
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Kilpatrick previously sought a commutation from President Barack Obama, but was denied, the Detroit Free Press reported .
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Her commutation is inspirational & gives hope to so many others who are deserving of a second chance.
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The process for a commutation (reduction of a criminal sentence) is similar to that for a pardon.
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Before December 24, only one prisoner had received a commutation, while over 22014,22014 applications had been rejected.
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The move brings Obama well beyond his most recent predecessors, who used their commutation powers more sparingly.
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"This administration is ... obsessed with unwinding Obama's legacy, from health care to Chelsea's commutation," Meltzer-Cohen said.
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His sentence commuted by Obama in November as part of a larger commutation of 79 sentences, MLive.
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The entire House Republican delegation from Illinois came out against a commutation for Blagojevich on Thursday afternoon.
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Oklahoma's parole board, under a new state law that recently went into effect, accelerated the commutation review.
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US Attorney Michael Dunavant after the commutation that he understands and respects Trump's decision in this case.
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He was set to be released in 2023, but Trump's commutation set him free four years early.
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Still, this accounted for only about 5 percent of the commutation petitions submitted during his two terms.
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In announcing the commutation, Mr. Abbott also noted that the gunman had not been sentenced to death.
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Dershowitz says his meeting with Trump took place in person a few months before the actual commutation.
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But he pointed out that the commutation came only after Kim Kardashian visited Trump to request it.
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She never let herself think about a commutation, lest she be thrown back into a deeper darkness.
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Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop Alice Johnson deserved a commutation.
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Penned in 2015, it was published in The New Inquiry the morning before Obama's announcement of her commutation.
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Justice can be served here, if something like the commutation of the sentence or a pardoning is happening.
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Her commutation is inspirational & gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance.
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Earlier this summer, Kardashian West successfully lobbied President Donald Trump for the sentence commutation of Alice Marie Johnson.
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And we must correct this reckless commutation by ensuring future leakers are held accountable and serve their time.
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"The president's pardon and commutation power is absolute," said Stephen Presser, the emeritus law professor at Northwestern University.
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He deserves a full pardon and an apology, but a commutation will at least give him his freedom.
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Trump has not yet decided whether he will move forward with either a pardon or commutation for Johnson.
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Even as many celebrated Cyntoia Brown's commutation, there were dissenters who questioned her worth in a similar way.
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During his 1975 to 1983 gubernatorial stint, the paper reported, Brown pardoned 404 people and granted one commutation.
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In the largest mass commutation in US history, at least 462 non-violent inmates were released, officials said.
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Trump's commutation of Johnson is all the more bizarre because it goes explicitly against his broader policy agenda.
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The commutation does not erase the crime from Johnson's record, but it allows her to leave prison immediately.
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Some political leaders and people involved in his case had sharp critiques at the prospect of a commutation.
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Prosecutors, who opposed a commutation of the sentence, said later Thursday that they would not appeal the decision.
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Mother Jones ticks through the rest of the pardon/commutation list: Ariel Friedler hacked into his competitors' computers.
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The pardons were announced the same day Trump announced the commutation of the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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A federal inmate from Texas serving 19.5 years for selling cocaine, Jones received a commutation this past August.
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The warden of his prison called him into his office and told him he had received a commutation.
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Her commutation is inspirational and gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance.
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A mass commutation of prisoners on death row was last signed in 2009 by the then President Mwai Kibaki.
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Another Greitens&apos commutation will free Alvis Williams, who was sentenced for 230 years behind bars for stealing electronics.
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Opinion: How to inspire criminal justice reform One year ago, 13,115 commutation requests were pending at the Justice Department.
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Now that Obama has approved her commutation application, Manning is set to leave Fort Leavenworth prison on May 17.
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Army document leaker Chelsea Manning is on President Obama's shortlist for a possible sentence commutation, NBC News reported Wednesday.
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Manning's commutation should have happened years ago, but Obama has likely saved her life by securing her release now.
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Kardashian West hailed the commutation, tweeting, "BEST NEWS EVER!!!!" and expressing gratitude to Trump and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
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Trump noted that Blagojevich was on the show "for a short time" in his remarks about the potential commutation.
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We don't know whether he would support a structured, broad-based pardon/commutation system for those with federal convictions.
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Of the backlog of 11,203 pardon and commutation cases, only 2,876 have been filed since Mr. Trump became president.
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I think it would be hard to craft a system for a blanket commutation of a class of people.
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Manning had already served seven years of her prison sentence when the White House announced the commutation on Tuesday.
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But Tuesday's commutation comes after a media campaign by the former governor's wife that Trump appears to have seen.
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Taking into account good behavior time, Jones was set to be released—even without a commutation—in April 2019.
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It did not take long for WikiLeaks to declare victory over the commutation -- something that could further Obama's public discomfort.
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President Donald Trump said this week that he was considering a commutation of the remainder of former Democratic Illinois Gov.
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Without the governor's commutation, she would not have been eligible to be considered for parole until 2055 at the earliest.
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Brauchler said Lima-Marin only applied for a commutation of his sentence, not for a pardon, as required by law.
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But an early commutation of a sentence without DOJ involvement in a high-profile case wouldn't be entirely without precedent.
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"That is something that no district attorney in Oklahoma has ever done — actively support a commutation application," Ms. Lambert said.
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CNN reported shortly after Johnson's commutation that the White House had prepared pardon paperwork for at least more 30 people.
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Instead, if a prisoner falls into an eligible category, the commutation should be granted unless individual circumstances compel a denial.
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Those 16 inmates were all granted commutation, he said, and only two of them were later arrested on new charges.
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Trump signs off Ultimately Trump signed the commutation after Kushner had pushed a number of times as Hanukkah was approaching.
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Cooper and his lawyers are not asking for a pardon right now, or even for a commutation to life imprisonment.
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There is no commutation, settlement, or reparation that will feed somebody, but there is the redress of a clever monument.
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But he also appeared to tie Blagojevich's commutation to one of his perceived political foes, former FBI Director James Comey.
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Karadzic's lawyer, however, said he would continue to consider ways to look for a judicial review or commutation of sentence.
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In its initial public comments after the commutation, the White House tried to argue that the two cases were fundamentally different.
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At the time, Foster became the only Texas inmate to win a commutation from Perry without the prodding of a court.
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Since he took office, Trump has received more than 500 requests for pardons and more than 2,000 for commutation of sentences.
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Aaron's application for executive commutation was not only supported by the judge who sentenced him, but also by the prosecuting attorney.
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The Manning commutation is already sparking controversy, with one Republican senator saying that Obama had commuted the sentence of a traitor.
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NBC News reports that Obama has put the whistleblower on a shortlist for commutation in the final days of his presidency.
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The commutation of one woman is symbolic and encouraging, but one release does not mark the systemic change our nation needs.
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More than 450 inmates were released from Oklahoma prisons on Monday in the largest single-day mass commutation in US history.
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Tony Evers in the form of a clemency petition that asks for either a pardon or commutation of his life sentence.
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A pardon would wipe away some effects of the conviction and free Dassey, while a commutation would simply shorten the sentence.
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"Governor Ivey does not presently intend to exercise her powers of commutation or reprieve in this case," William Parker Jr. wrote.
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Blagojevich on Friday defiantly rebuked critics of his commutation, who have pointed to the considerable charges that landed him in prison.
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The governor and legislature have built on those reforms — culminating on Monday with the largest single-day commutation in US history.
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In a YouGov poll, only 33 percent agreed with the commutation, including a surprisingly small 49 percent of Obama's own Democrats.
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Federal regulators find no defect in Tesla Autopilot probe Assange hedges on extradition to US Department of Labor sues Oracle for discrimination 'Love Actually' director uses Pokémon Go to put focus on global poverty Earnest: GOP intellectually dishonest on Manning commutation Manning commutation sparks Democratic criticism Civil liberties group sues FBI to release Russia response View the discussion thread.
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Obama's commutation reduces the sentence being served, but it does not change a conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.
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As has become a hallmark of his impulsive decision-making, Trump's commutation for Alice Marie Johnson seems to contradict his administration's policies.
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President Obama has now issued 1,385 grants of commutation over the course of his two terms, the most granted by any president.
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Since Johnson's commutation, Kardashian has worked with lawyers and activists, including Jones, on a national bipartisan advocacy group on criminal justice reform.
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Kalt: One example was President Bush (43)'s commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, but that did not make a very big splash.
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Her commutation and forthcoming release is inspirational and gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance.
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Stitt said, adding that nearly 30 fairs were held inside prisons before the commutation day to help the inmates plan their transition.
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He also teased the idea of clemency for Martha Stewart, along with a potential sentence commutation for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
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The president also said he was considering a pardon for lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and a commutation for disgraced former Illinois Gov.
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The president, who had issued five pardons and one commutation before Wednesday's show of mercy, was lobbied by celebrity Kim Kardashian West.
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Last week NBC reported that Manning, a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison, was on the short list for commutation.
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Lopez-Rivera was offered a commutation by President Clinton in 1999, but refused because President Clinton required him to publically renounce terrorism.
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The case for Kerik to receive a pardon is strong, as opposed to the commutation of the sentence for an avowed terrorist.
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President Barack Obama issued his first commutation in December 2010, just shy of the two-year mark of his time in office.
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The New York Times reported that Kushner has suggested to the President that a commutation of Blagojevich's sentence would appeal to Democrats.
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In 2016, President Obama granted a surprise commutation to Chelsea Manning who provided the material for many of WikiLeaks' most prominent publications.
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He also signed an order granting a commutation for Judith Negron, who was sentenced to 35 years behind bars for Medicare fraud.
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Reed submitted an application to the board requesting the 120-day reprieve or a commutation of his sentence to a lesser penalty.
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If the dismissal is upheld, it would strike a major blow to efforts to insulate Manafort from a presidential pardon or commutation.
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President Barack Obama granted five pardons and one commutation in fiscal year 2012, according to clemency data compiled by the Justice Department.
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And some presidents — like Mr. Obama — have waited until the end of their presidencies before issuing pardons and making grants of commutation.
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Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, told reporters on Capitol Hill that he considered Manning a "traitor" and said he was "disappointed" about the commutation.
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Yet he wasn't using the commutation power to reduce the sentences of people currently in jail under the laws he'd worked to change.
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After all, Newsom has the powers of clemency and commutation as a remedy if he sees actual proof that someone was wrongfully convicted.
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And Trump&aposs big announcement Wednesday -- that he will grant a commutation for Marie Johnson -- is sure to spur even more clemency seekers.
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A statement from Brauchler's office said the prosecutor doesn't oppose the commutation of Lima-Marin's sentence and doesn't believe he should be deported.
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In September, Hall's request to have her sentence commuted was denied; her next chance to argue for commutation will be in three years.
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ET Thursday for Van Jones' exclusive interview with Kim Kardashian West on her reaction to President Donald Trump's commutation of Alice Marie Johnson.
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If Trump does not grant Kilpatrick's request for commutation, the disgraced mayor will remain in prison until at least 2037, the newspaper reported.
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Similarly barred would be Ronald Reagan's commutation of 13 sentences, and Barack Obama's initiative to commute the sentences of hundreds of narcotics prisoners.
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Savanah Colón, who was pregnant at the time that her husband was killed, said Wednesday that she was not angry about the commutation.
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The website of the office outlines the elaborate vetting process that it suggests for the consideration of a presidential pardon or sentence commutation.
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One case prominently mentioned by critics is the pardon and sentence commutation for Patrick Baker, who was convicted of reckless homicide in 2017.
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The move appeared to be a bid to blunt the effect of any pardon or commutation Trump might issue on the federal convictions.
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The commutation came after years of lobbying by a number of prominent lawyers and politicians who considered the sentence a miscarriage of justice.
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The imprisoned government whistleblower is on President Obama's short list for a potential sentence commutation, NBC reported Wednesday, citing a Justice Department source.
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Mike DeWine to consider commuting Hunter's sentence, but Hunter herself must apply for the commutation, a spokesman for the governor's office told the Enquirer.
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Since being released from prison in May 2017 via a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning has quickly and adroitly readapted to civilian life.
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The US Army is confirming that Chelsea Manning has been released from detention at Fort Leavenworth, in accordance with the commutation of her sentence.
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"Her commutation and forthcoming release is inspirational and gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance," she said.
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That's well beyond the commutation records of previous presidents, though Obama has granted fewer pardons, which would restore some rights back to convicted felons.
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The White House made clear in a statement that Rubashkin's commutation was not a presidential pardon, which would otherwise clear him of his conviction.
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On top of everything, Obama appears to have pushed for this commutation against the recommendation of top advisors, including his own secretary of Defense.
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Chelsea Manning has just been released by President Obama's commutation, after serving seven years in prison, and her mischief served no socially useful purpose.
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In a commutation, the president can reduce the sentence down to time served and spare the person any further prison time on the offense.
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As for a possible pardon or commutation of Manafort, it still remains unclear whether the president would take such clearly unwarranted and inappropriate action.
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Rumblings of a possible commutation began last week, when NBC cited a Department of Justice source saying that Manning was on Obama's short list.
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"Governor Ivey does not presently intend to exercise her powers of commutation or reprieve in this case," according to a letter from the governor.
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But with nearly 9,000 petitioners for a commutation ahead of him, it could take years for federal law enforcement officials to decide his fate.
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COMMUTATION Tynice Nichole Hall was sentenced in 2006 after she was convicted on various drug charges in Lubbock, Texas, according to the Justice Department.
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The former governor's wife has appeared multiple times on Fox asking for the commutation of the remainder of her husband's 14-year jail sentence.
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Why it matters: It was the largest mass commutation in U.S. history, part of a broad criminal justice reform effort being undertaken by Oklahoma.
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Any Stone jail sentence would inevitably set up the question of a presidential pardon or commutation as the 2020 campaign kicks into full swing.
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A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but it does not change the fact of conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.
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President Trump would be wise to follow the example of his predecessor by making use of the pardon and commutation power -- with care and discretion.
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In 2012, ProPublica and the Washington Post reported that Rodgers had misrepresented an application for commutation in order to recommend that the application be denied.
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A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but it does not change the fact of conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.
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His administration recently hinted that it saw her case for commutation as stronger than the push for pardon of another high-profile whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
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Instead, he is requesting clemency from Trump in the form of a sentence commutation, or reduction, according to an application filed with the Justice Department.
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The decent and appropriate resolution for Joe Robertson's unjust imprisonment caused by EPA arrogance is an immediate presidential commutation of his sentence to time served.
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THE TOPLINE: President Obama defended his commutation of convicted former Army soldier Chelsea Manning's sentence on Wednesday as Republicans lined up to blast the move.
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President Barack Obama did not intervene in Johnson's case during his eight years in office because the Justice Department recommended denying Johnson's request for commutation.
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Plame also questioned whether Trump had given due deliberation to granting a pardon to Libby, to whom former President George W. Bush gave a commutation.
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Blagojevich has defiantly rebuked critics of his commutation -- and even referred to himself as a "political prisoner" in a recent interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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A lawyer for Mr. Lopez Rivera, Jan Susler, said in an interview on Tuesday that there was widespread support for the commutation of his sentence.
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Unlike a commutation, which shortens or ends a prison sentence, a pardon is an act of forgiveness granted to someone who has completed a sentence.
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With one week left, Evans hopes his clean record while behind bars and self-improvement programs he has taken will convince Obama to grant his commutation.
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It is extremely rare for leaders of the country's chaebols to be justly punished for their crimes—most convicted are ultimately pardoned or granted a commutation.
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Nor does he have any clue when the White House might finally get around to deciding on his commutation petition, one of over 20,000 still pending.
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A petition typically must clear all these steps for someone to get a pardon or commutation (although, as Trump has shown, the president can act unilaterally).
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And so, they&aposve lost all their appeals and they have no choice but to get a commutation from the president, that&aposs their only hope.
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The Office of the Pardon Attorney, which reviews pardon and commutation requests, has been found to be biased regarding how and who it recommends for relief.
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He spoke with VICE in the days following the commutation news about what it means to him, to her, for those she's inspired, and what's next.
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Johnson's commutation is the sixth act of clemency Trump has issued since taking office, and the second granted by Trump after a celebrity appealed to him.
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President Barack Obama did not intervene in the case during his eight years in office because the Justice Department recommended denying Johnson's request for a commutation.
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A White House statement about Suhl's commutation noted that federal prosecutors in Arkansas declined to pursue the criminal case against him, but prosecutors in Washington did.
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President Trump has signed a commutation for Alice Johnson, currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, according to a source with direct knowledge.
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She wound up serving minimal prison time and receiving special treatment from two presidents: commutation of sentence from Jimmy Carter and a pardon from Bill Clinton.
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It remains unclear if Trump will actually go through with the Blagojevich commutation — he clearly wants to, but administration officials and Republicans in Illinois have objected.
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"Her commutation and forthcoming release is inspirational and gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance," Ms. Kardashian West said.
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Still, because the president's pardon and commutation power is limited to the federal level, the federal prison system is where Trump has a particularly strong influence.
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He is not asking for those crimes to be pardoned, only to have his sentence shortened to reflect that his behavior meets the guidelines for commutation.
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More than half of those that he granted clemency were low-level offenders released from overcrowded jails and prisons as part of a planned mass commutation.
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Oklahoma will release more than 460 prison inmates on Monday in what will amount to the largest single-day mass commutation of sentences in US history.
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The commutation was part of a raft of clemencies announced by the governor on Friday, which were hailed by a wide swath of criminal justice advocates.
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Prisoners applying for commutations have to file their petitions while they're still in prison; if they're released before the commutation is processed, then their application is closed.
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The commutation of her sentence comes just days after the president met with Kim Kardashian West, a Johnson supporter, at the White House to discuss prison reform.
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Trump granted his second-ever commutation to Alice Marie Johnson in June, freeing the 63-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother from a life sentence in prison.
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Chelsea Manning, who received a commutation last week, has an op-ed in The Guardian that says Obama has been unable to stand up to his opposition.
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He and his co-defendant, Ricardo Montes, spent months working on an application, but in the end Mr. Montes received a commutation, while Mr. Scarmazzo did not.
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The accused also has the right to request a pardon or commutation of sentence from the Iraqi government even if the appellate court has confirmed the sentence.
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The U.S. constitution grants the president essentially unlimited power to offer clemency – either a full pardon or a commutation, which shortens a sentence while the conviction stands.
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"One of the lessons that we're all learning from what's going on this summer is that we need to have multiple options for commutation," Mr. Pinsky said.
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The commutation is not a presidential pardon — Rubashkin's conviction will stand, as will his terms of release and the restitution payments he will be obliged to pay.
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On Friday, Stitt signed off on the commutation of 527 inmates' sentences, with 462 to be released on Monday and 0003 later, Holly Yan reported for CNN.
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The reality star and entrepreneur was also instrumental in securing a commutation for Alice Marie Johnson, a woman serving a life sentence over non-violent drug charges.
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She received a high-profile commutation from President Trump in June 22020 after Kim Kardashian West visited the White House and personally made a plea for her.
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In his tenure, Obama has reduced the sentences of more than 1,000 non-violent drug offenders, far surpassing other recent presidents, who used their commutation powers more sparingly.
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On the same day in 6900 that Aaron's petition was denied for the second time, another man serving life on drug charges, Reed Prior, was granted executive commutation.
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When we began to have more concrete talks about the future, when it seemed like commutation was a possibility, as cautious as those conversations were, two things emerged.
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Kevin Stitt signed a law streamlining the process for people already sentenced to prison for these crimes to apply for commutation and reduction of their charge to misdemeanors.
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Oklahoma last week carried out the largest single-commutation in the country's history, allowing more than 2628 prisoners serving for low-level offenses to go free on Monday.
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An inspector general report published in 2012 found that former Pardon Attorney Ronald Rogers withheld information from President George W. Bush that may have led to a commutation.
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In late 2017, Trump issued his first commutation to Sholom Rubashkin, an Iowa meatpacking executive convicted of bank fraud in 2009 and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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She told me that at Leavenworth, not long before she learned of her commutation, a robin had alighted at her window, a small messenger from the world outside.
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The President said he's "not even thinking" about a pardon for his longtime ally, calling the commutation and pardons he announced on Tuesday "totally unrelated" to Stone's case.
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And a sentence commutation went to Alice Marie Johnson at the behest of Kim Kardashian, whose husband, Kanye West, is a vociferous Trump supporter and MAGA hat wearer.
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The email explained that Obama had commuted his sentence to expire on August 3, 2018, and that the commutation was contingent on him completing a drug treatment program.
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" In a statement calling the commutation "outrageous," House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets.
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But the standards are a lot stricter, so it's a lot harder for a current prisoner to get a commutation than for an ex-prisoner to get a pardon.
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In response to the news that Manning had been pardoned during Obama's final week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that Trump was "troubled" by the commutation.
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"I believe Nunez's sentence is excessive," wrote Schwarzenegger in his commutation letter, citing the lack of criminal history and the inability to prove that Nunez actually stabbed Luis Santos.
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Manning is due to be released in May, but Assange has insisted that the commutation does not fulfill the agreement, and he has no plans to turn himself in.
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The commutation was part of a larger effort that included 209 commutations and 64 pardons, issued just three days before President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to take office.
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King is the second and final man executed over the murder after having an appeal for a commutation or a 120-day reprieve denied Monday, the Texas Tribune reports.
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Madoff's former longtime secretary also is asking Trump for a commutation of her six-year prison term for helping facilitate the Ponzi scheme, according to the Justice Department's webpage.
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Oklahoma officials said it was the largest single-day commutation of sentences the state had ever seen, and it was surely one of the largest in the nation's history.
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The former Democratic governor, who's serving a 14-year sentence stemming from felony corruption charges, is filing official clemency paperwork after Trump told reporters he was considering a commutation.
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President Obama has been exercising his pardon and commutation power quite extensively compared to recent history in connection with what he regards as over-incarceration of minor drug offenders.
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"I don&apost believe that the theoretical availability of a pardon or commutation at some undetermined time in the future has anything to do with troop behavior," he added.
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On Saturday, Calista learned that she would be part of the group of more than 450 inmates being released early in the largest single-day commutation in US history.
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NBC News is reporting that Chelsea Manning, who is in serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified secrets, is on President Obama's short list for a commutation.
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Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who is serving a 85033-year sentence for leaking classified material, is reportedly on the shortlist for a possible sentence commutation by Obama.
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And in June, after a trip to the White House by Kim Kardashian West, a commutation arrived for Alice Johnson, who was serving a life sentence on drug charges.
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Ordinarily, Blagojevich would have little hope of a pardon or commutation — his offense seems absurdly corrupt, and what president would want to be seen as waving away his crimes?
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Mr. Cheney repeatedly pressed Mr. Bush to go beyond his commutation and issue a full pardon, bringing it up so often that the president grew irritated by the matter.
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Pardoning and commutation decisions by governors are generally final and cannot be undone, said Rachel E. Barkow, a law professor at New York University who focuses on criminal justice.
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After trying various legal avenues to free Hall over the last several years, the ACLU filed a commutation application with the support of the local district attorney in March.
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This is the first time the KKW beauty mogul will meet with Johnson, but the 63-year-old said that she first heard the news of her commutation from Kardashian.
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Washington (CNN)WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears to be standing by his offer to submit himself for extradition to the US in exchange for the commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence.
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Chelsea Manning Obama's concluding news conference comes amid a flurry of last-minute activity, including handing down a commutation for national security leaker Chelsea Manning and a pardon for Gen.
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CAVUTO: In this latest case of this woman who was in jail for so long on a drug charge, do you think that was a justifiable release, commutation, I guess?
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Rubashkin's commutation was met with ecstatic approbation in the Orthodox community in Brooklyn where he was greeted "like a war hero" according to someone who witnessed his return from prison.
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Under the terms of the commutation announced by the White House on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year rather than in 2045.
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A pardon restores some of the legal rights that are taken away when someone is convicted of a serious crime; a commutation is a shortening of a sentence, she said.
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We worked with advocacy groups, human rights groups, both domestic and international, which has led to a lot of different policies, also lead to the president doing a historical commutation.
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Unrelated to her commutation, Manning was ordered back to jail this month after refusing to testify before a grand jury as part of a federal investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
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CNN reported in May that Kardashian West helped aide the commutation of life sentences for 17 inmates who were first-time nonviolent drug offenders over the course of just 90 days.
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Bill Ritter said the decision was made in part because she and Brian Hood "shared responsibility, and this commutation brings balance to the conviction and the sentencing," the Denver Post reports.
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"If there is evidence to suggest that the president, through intermediaries, dangled a pardon or a commutation to induce Paul Manafort to lie and obstruct, that becomes a crime," said Rossi.
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Despite the commutation, Manning has already paid a heavy price for her crimes, including spending long stretches in solitary confinement, which a United Nations report deemed torture, and repeated suicide attempts.
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Regardless, given the indiscriminate way Manning released secret information, some politicians are saying the commutation of her sentence was a mistake that will encourage more acts of espionage in the future.
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After serving two years, and following the U.S. Attorney General's letter to President Calvin Coolidge recommending immediate commutation of Garvey's sentence, Garvey was deported from the United States, never to return.
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In January 2017, after being locked up at five different facilities, in conditions a United Nations expert called "cruel" and "inhumane," Manning had received a surprise commutation by President Barack Obama.
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Patti Blagojevich appeared semi-regularly on Fox News as she lobbied her husband's case, and Trump signed off on the commutation on Tuesday as part of a wave of clemency orders.
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Then, ultimately the same branch of government that spent all that time and money convicting the person grants a pardon or commutation -- effectively canceling out all those resources spent getting the conviction.
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Chase Strangio, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Manning, said he was "relieved and thankful" Obama commuted her sentence, and Amnesty International also cheered news of Manning's commutation.
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Sharped added that while Trump was "very receptive," he gave no signal as to when he might issue his next commutation — or if he will grant clemency to either individual at all.
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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday called President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's prison sentence "disappointing," arguing it sends a "very troubling message" on the handling of classified information.
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" In her commutation application, Ms. Manning said she had not imagined that she would be sentenced to the "extreme" term of 35 years, a term for which there was "no historical precedent.
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Stone's fate now rests in part with Trump, who has the power to issue an election-season pardon or commutation to spare one of his longest-running political advisers any jail time.
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His decision to announce the commutation on the eve of his final presidential news conference on Wednesday indicates he wanted to explain the reasons for his decision to the American people in person.
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Justice Breyer may want a sweeping new ruling about elderly death-row inmates earning a commutation when they start to decline, but the swing vote in Madison v Alabama is clearly the chief.
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" In February, more than a hundred public leaders, including Attorneys General, FBI directors, and federal judges, wrote a letter to the president urging for Rabashakin's commutation, calling his sentence "patently unjust" and "draconian.
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The other commutation involved Ted Suhl, an Arkansas man accused of participating in a bribery scheme to boost Medicaid payments to his company, which operated faith-based behavioral healthcare treatment centers for juveniles.
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Though it is impossible to know President Barack Obama's true reasons for granting her commutation, the decision cements his and his administration's legacy as an unlikely champion for the rights of transgender Americans.
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It's basically my life story up until I got the commutation, from my birth to my time in school and going to the army and going to prison and the court-martial process.
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The death penalty was restored in 723, using lethal injections, then scrapped again in 2006, with 1,230 convicts taken off death row in what Amnesty International called the biggest commutation of its kind.
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Mr. Burris, who said he has not kept in touch with Mr. Blagojevich, said he was unconvinced that a commutation would materialize because the president's "mind goes from one thing to the next."
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It was so inefficient and biased towards rejection that even President Obama, who seemed to have genuine concern for those in prison, granted just one commutation in his first five years in office.
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Fast-forward to 2016, and the Office of the Pardon Attorney has certainly received 10,000 applications for commutation — but since October 2013 (six months before the clemency initiative started), it's only granted 186.
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The ad cites multiple clients of Kaine's from his time as a defense attorney, as well as his commutation of Percy Levar Walton, a black man convicted of triple murder, due to mental incompetence.
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"The legal standard for commutation of a sentence is someone who makes exceptional strides in self-improvement and rehabilitation, to the point where they are no longer considered to be a threat," he explains.
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The attorney for Julian Assange said President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence does not meet the conditions of the WikiLeaks head's offer to be extradited to the United States if Manning were pardoned.
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JAG—the military office that handles cases like Manning's—rejected it on the grounds that sentences of 30 years or more cannot be considered for commutation until at least ten years had been served.
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That commutation came just days after Kardashian West, who said she became interested in Johnson after seeing a story about her months ago on Twitter, pleaded Johnson's case to Trump in the Oval Office.
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Young&aposs attorneys have sued the panel, arguing a white Texas inmate, Thomas Whitaker, received a rare commutation earlier this year as his execution was imminent for the slaying of his mother and brother.
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That's going to change the format of the podcast, but it seems increasingly ambitious—the first post-commutation episode featured Woods interviewing his incarcerated brother about the heartbreak of trying to parent from prison.
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The big picture: Thanks to pressure from Kardashian, the commutation, in addition to the president's other high-profile clemency cases, puts a renewed focus on the Trump administration's push for prison and sentencing reform.
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There remained the distant possibility of a presidential pardon or commutation, but Manning had no reason to expect one: The White House had condemned the leaks, as had the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
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COMMUTATION Judith Negron was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2011 for her role in orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme as the owner of a mental health care company in Miami.
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Tony Evers (D) restarted the state's pardons board this year, the news agency reported, but he has said applicants need to have fulfilled their sentences and added that he won't consider a sentence commutation.
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The president met with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West earlier this year to discuss a commutation for Alice Marie Johnson, who received a life sentence for a first-time non-violent cocaine trafficking charge.
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"The president's review of Mr. Rubashkin's case and commutation decision were based on expressions of support from members of Congress and a broad cross-section of the legal community," the White House statement said.
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Alan M. Dershowitz, an emeritus law professor at Harvard and a noted author, said he had been working on the case for about five years and had personally asked Mr. Trump to consider commutation.
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In the week leading up to Christmas, Trump gave and received a good number of gifts, including some "me time" at Camp David, a potential pardon for Flynn, and a sentence commutation for Sholom Rubashkin.
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" As to Hoffa's conditional commutation specifically, Pratt concluded that "the condition in question was within the President's pardoning power and that under the circumstances was reasonable and not violative of any of [Hoffa's] constitutional rights.
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Intrigued by the possibility that he might finally be able to clear his name, Mr. Gatling called the lawyer who had handled his commutation and was, some 40 years later, still working for Legal Aid.
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"I can't imagine it came as a shock to very many people to see that the U.S. government managed to find a way to disrupt her life, post-commutation," said Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Manning's lawyer.
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The commutation also relieved the Defense Department of the difficult responsibility of Ms. Manning's incarceration as she pushes for treatment for her gender dysphoria, including sex reassignment surgery, that the military has no experience providing.
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Despite the relatively high number of commutations that Mr. Obama has now granted, there are still more than 9,000 pending commutation cases, many of the sort singled out in the 2014 initiative as potentially worthy.
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It's also a flagrant example of the president using one of his few virtually unlimited powers to reward political allies and celebrity friends — and that should trouble even the most ardent supporters of Johnson's commutation.
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In their federal civil rights suit, Young&aposs lawyers argued a white Texas inmate, Thomas Whitaker, received a rare commutation earlier this year as his execution was imminent for the slaying of his mother and brother.
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Meanwhile, Trump said he's thinking of giving a pardon and a sentence commutation to Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois who is serving a 14-year term for corruption, and his "biggest fan" Martha Stewart.
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"The President's review of Mr. Rubashkin's case and commutation decision were based on expressions of support from Members of Congress and a broad cross-section of the legal community," the White House said in a statement.
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Just because Obama has commutation power "does not mean that [Trump] wouldn't be able to have the Justice Department find something else to go after Manning for," said Brian Kant, a law professor at Michigan University.
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"Let me clarify: only conversation about a pardon was a generic one that occurred around the time of the commutation for the woman recommended by Kim Kardashian," Giuliani said in a statement reported by multiple outlets.
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Love or hate President Trump's decision to pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and give Rubashkin this commutation, at least he's had the guts to make those moves at a time when it could actually cost him.
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Laura Briggs, the widow of the officer killed by Mr. Addison, told a legislative committee last month that she worried that a vote to repeal would almost inevitably lead to the commutation of Mr. Addison's sentence.
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COMMUTATION Crystal Munoz was found guilty in 2008 of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, according to a petition filed by the Criminal Defense Clinic at the Texas A&M University School of Law.
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If Trump were to grant a pardon or sentence commutation to Stone or former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it would undoubtedly trigger a fresh firestorm within the DOJ and could create more headaches for Barr.
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and former attorney general Eric Holder both sided with President Trump today, supporting a commutation for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's 18-year prison sentence for corruption, per NBC News' Geoff Bennett.
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Besides Johnson's commutation, Trump has also pardoned political allies, like former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, and posthumously pardoned heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson after actor Sylvester Stallone personally lobbied for it.
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Once upon a time, there was only one way to have the president consider your petition for a pardon (which mitigates the effects of a conviction) or a commutation (which shortens a sentence) — and it was terrible.
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During the Super Bowl, his campaign ran an ad about his commutation of the sentence for a black woman, Alice Marie Johnson, who had been in jail 21 years for her non-violent role in cocaine trafficking.
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Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, said on Twitter that the commutation was "a real Hanukkah miracle" and that he was "proud to be a part of a large, bipartisan group" that had pushed for that outcome.
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The government calls a commutation an "extraordinary remedy" — applicants are supposed to demonstrate that their sentences weren't equitable or were overly severe, or that they're ill or elderly (and therefore unlikely to complete their sentences to begin with).
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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will release 462 inmates after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously on Friday to recommended commutation of their sentences for crimes that would no longer be considered felonies if charged today.
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White House Counsel Beth Nolan sounded weary when Clinton intergovernmental affairs chief Mickey Ibarra said Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson had inquired about the status of a commutation sought by a young man convicted of distributing LSD.
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The White House started drawing up paperwork for Johnson's commutation on Tuesday morning, the Washington Post reported, even though Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly and his White House counsel Don McGahn both cautioned the president against the move.
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A handwritten letter dated May 29, 1962, by Adolf Eichmann to the president of Israel asking for a pardon and commutation of his death sentence for war crimes was released to the public for the first time on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama reduced the sentences of another 79 federal prisoners by exercising his commutation power, the White House said on Tuesday, bringing to more than 1,000 the number of prisoners whose sentences were commuted under Obama.
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Obama, with the help of pro-bono lawyers and the Justice Department, announced in 2014 that he would use clemency and commutation powers to right the wrong of sentences he saw as overly harsh and unfit of the crime.
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"I would get more thrill out of pardoning people nobody has heard of, like Alice yesterday," said Trump, referring to his commutation of Alice Johnson, a woman who served more than 20 years on a first-time drug charge.
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" Mark Vargas, a spokesman for the Blagojevich family, told CNN late last week that the family had heard rumors of a possibly impending commutation, but said the family had not confirmed the rumors and was "in a holding pattern.
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Though granted clemency by the president, commutation is not a "get out of jail free" card, as many will serve more time after having their sentences commuted to current sentencing guidelines, while others will begin to process out of federal custody.
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The commutation granted to Sholom Rubashkin, 57, marked only the second time that Trump has invoked his clemency authority as president, following the blanket pardon he granted earlier this year to Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona.
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Sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of life without the possibility of parole for selling 85033 grams of crack cocaine because of prior drug offenses, he served more than 12 years of that sentence before receiving a commutation last August.
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"I've worked really hard to be the woman my children need me to be," Ms. Hall told the parole board last month, thanking them for "allowing me to come this far in commutation," according to KFOR, a local television station.
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The commutation, confirmed by the White House, comes quite quickly after Kardashian's meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last week, which Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, arranged so the pair could talk prison reform and Johnson's potential pardon.
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But Trump has enjoyed using his pardon (and in this case, commutation) power to forgive somewhat notorious, politically controversial individuals: former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, conservative writer and documentarian Dinesh D'Souza, and former Bush White House aide Scooter Libby.
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"Rivers continues to commit crimes, even when he is on community custody and even after being given a once-in-a-lifetime second chance through a governor's commutation," John B. Castleton Jr., a prosecutor in King County, said in court records.
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But in the three years since Obama announced Manning's commutation, she's also become a figure in the fight against an unjust system, after refusing to comply with a grand jury investigation, a decision that has cost her her freedom—again.
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Tens of thousands of federal inmates, most of them nonviolent drug offenders, have appealed to President Obama for a commutation of their sentences; so far, the president has granted 1,203 of those petitions—more than any other president in history.
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Manning, who was convicted of leaking classified documents before transitioning to a woman and later winning a commutation from Obama – has received a barrage of media attention, yet the former Army intelligence analyst has struggled to make a significant mark on the race.
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"President Obama's act of commutation was the first time the military took care of this soldier who risked so much to disclose information that served the public interest," Manning attorneys Nancy Hollander and Vincent Ward said in a joint statement last week.
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Only two of Trump's acts of clemency lacked overt political symbolism so far: a sentence commutation for Iowa meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin that received bipartisan support, and a long-overdue posthumous pardon to clear the name of black heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson.
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And she had, in fact, written a letter to the parole board in 22015, in which she said: Therefore, it is proper for you to consider the cooperation of this inmate when determining his eligibility for parole or commutation at some future date.
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It was Kushner, they say, who brought the Rubashkin case up to a dispassionate Trump several times in the summer and fall of 2017, before finally persuading him to make what would be his first commutation and only his second act of clemency.
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Being able to buy a cheap used car, a commutation ticket or a one-way bus ticket would enable poor Americans, confined to remote trailer camps or public housing projects or living in regions where jobs are scarce, to find and hold jobs.
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Even if the maneuvering by Flynn's defense amounts to naught in the courts, the lawyers' efforts to surface complaints about the Trump-Russia probe and the Mueller investigation could improve chances of Flynn receiving a pardon or commutation from President Donald Trump.
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White House lawyers also warned Clinton, who had endorsed a constitutional amendment to vindicate victims' rights, that customary notifications of victims in some of the pardon and commutation cases were not being made because the cases had bypassed the usual Justice Department system.
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" Announcing the commutation of Blagojevich, a onetime "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant, Trump cited in part his wife Patti's frequent TV appearances urging for clemency and called Blagojevich's sentence "a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence in my opinion, and in the opinion of many others.
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Kim Kardashian West is responding to those who say Donald Trump used her as a political pawn in securing the commutation of Alice Marie Johnson, the 63-year-old first-time nonviolent drug offender who in 1996 was given a life sentence without parole.
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Though her status as a whistleblower of national importance separates her from most veterans, public reaction to the commutation of her prison sentence illustrates the degree to which both conservatives and liberals embrace the stereotype of the nationalistic veteran and reject anyone who subverts it.
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"While this administration will always be very tough on crime, it believes that those who have paid their debt to society and worked hard to better themselves while in prison deserve a second chance," the White House said in a statement announcing the commutation.
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This tweet signaled to the president's fervent loyalists that Gillespie was on board the Trump train on the gamut of hot button issues from Confederate monuments to women's rights to immigrant rights to minority rights to criminal justice matters like felons' rights, clemency and commutation.
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The Rubashkin commutation is one of the earliest examples of Kushner's success in persuading the President to make a decision that appeared to some in the White House to be a blatant example of cronyism and was out of step with their political messaging.
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"Her continued incarceration is costly, unnecessary to protect the public, burdensome to her health and wellbeing, and not commensurate with the severity of her offense," wrote Alison Grinter, the attorney representing Winner, in a petition for the commutation of her client's sentence last week.
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Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race His proposals call for raising the use of force standard for police, mandating implicit bias and de-escalation training, decriminalizing marijuana use and possession, and the commutation of all sentences for those offenses.
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We also all noticed the news reports that you just gifted a commutation for an alum of "The Celebrity Apprentice" who was accused of shakedowns involving a children's hospital and pardoned a former police commissioner convicted for tax fraud and lying to the government.
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Chelsea ManningChelsea Elizabeth ManningWaPo announces plans to increase investigative journalism staff US to question Assange friend jailed in Ecuador: report US extradition case for Assange set for next year MORE will lose her military healthcare benefits following President Obama's commutation of her prison sentence.
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The commutation had bipartisan support from lawmakers and had become a cause among many leading voices in the legal community, petitioning the Obama and Trump administrations to draw attention to a sentence they said was wildly disproportionate to the crime that had been committed.
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"Former Governor Blagojevich betrayed the people of Illinois and engaged in a pattern of corrupt behavior for which he was held accountable and which cost him more than seven years of freedom," Durbin said in a statement on Tuesday after the commutation was announced.
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Now 18 years into a federal life sentence for selling crack and marijuana in McKinney, Texas, the 43-year-old Holmes is waiting to hear if he'll be granted a commutation, an act of presidential clemency that represents his last real shot at ever returning home.
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Tiyip underwent a secret and "grossly unfair" trial where he was convicted of "separatism" and sentenced to a "suspended death sentence" — where the detainee is eligible for commutation after two years provided they have committed no other crimes — two years ago this September, according to Amnesty International.
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That was the tenor of the official story the White House rolled out in December 227, announcing the Presidential commutation of the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the former CEO of America's largest kosher meat processing plant who was convicted in 21 of a series of fraud charges.
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"It's highly likely that Paul Manafort went south because there has been a pardon or a commutation dangling over his head," said Gene Rossi, a former prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, where Manafort was found guilty of bank and tax fraud in a jury trial.
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Tuesday forcefully condemned President Obama's commutation of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning's prison sentence for leaking classified information.
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The parade issued a statement on Monday citing the 1983 St. Patrick's Day controversy and vowing that this year's parade would "create awareness on issues, even if controversial, that affect us as a Puerto Rican community, like the commutation of Oscar López Rivera's sentence after 35 years in jail."
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"The president seems to be someone who's willing to listen to people's appeals," said Robert Blagojevich, who lobbied for a commutation for his brother, Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois sentenced to 14 years for trying to essentially sell the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
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" Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin also denounced the commutation, saying on Twitter, "We have a massive federal investigation into corruption in the state of Illinois and this action distracts and dilutes what I think is the proper role of the Department of Justice — to root out corruption … I don't agree.
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But despite all the media attention and excitement from liberal activists, the former Army intelligence analyst previously known as Bradley Manning -- who was convicted of leaking classified documents before transitioning to a woman and later winning a commutation from then-President Barack Obama -- has struggled to make a significant mark on the race.
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Randall Samborn, a former spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office in Chicago, said he did not question the president's authority to grant a commutation, but he said that giving one in this case would upend the legal process and system, which had considered numerous elements of Mr. Blagojevich's case over nearly a decade.
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Rod Blagojevich (D) was released from prison Tuesday evening following President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's commutation of his sentence on corruption charges.
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But Johnson's commutation was also the latest sign that Trump will use the most unchecked power he possesses as president to do the bidding of whatever rich and famous people have his ear at the moment—the kind of whim-based decision-making that has the potential to foment the worst kind of corruption.
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" Evan Greer, an organizer with Fight for the Future who has been pushing for Manning's release, told me Tuesday morning before the commutation that many people close to her felt this way: "I don't want to take bets on my friend's life, but I'm very concerned about what will happen if President Obama doesn't act.
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A key member and driving force is reported to be Alice Johnson, who received a commutation of her own sentence from President TrumpDonald John TrumpAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a 'major' campaign issue MORE.
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"It's a little ironic and frankly a little sad and pathetic and hypocritical you talking about getting a commutation of a sentence, which is within the president's right, but you ignored a whole hell of a lot of other people who were hoping you might give them clemency when you actually mattered," Cooper said.
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RELATED: How to watch the vice presidential debate on CNN The ad mentions two death penalty cases Kaine defended as an attorney, Richard Lee Whiteley and Lem Tuggle, his commutation of the death sentence of Percy Walton as governor, and his 2010 decision to support the extradition of Jens Soering, a German man convicted of double murder.
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Lim veered from his prepared remarks several times while addressing the congregation, telling them that he didn't know he was going to be released until 15 minutes beforehand, and that he was certain that his Canadian citizenship played a huge role in the commutation of his initial sentence -- from death to hard labor -- and also in his release.
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A former top FBI official said Thursday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's possible commutation of former Illinois Gov.
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The debate over whether the very rich pay lower taxes than you, explained "I couldn't imagine all of the things that have happened": What Marie Yovanovitch told impeachment investigators More than 1,000 Google employees signed a letter demanding the company reduce its carbon emissions Oklahoma is releasing 462 inmates in the largest single-day commutation in US history
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" Bevin obviously disagrees, writing on Twitter, "The criminal justice system is intended to find the proper balance between justice for the victims and rehabilitation for the offenders ... When it is not possible to guarantee more of either being accomplished by further incarceration, it is reasonable for a person to be considered for either a commutation or a pardon.
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The commutation was one of a flurry of legal actions Trump took Tuesday, including pardons for Kerik, financier Michael Milken and former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. And they came days before the scheduled sentencing of Roger Stone in federal court in D.C., amid wide speculation that the president might pardon his former longtime adviser.
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Blagojevich in rash of clemency orders Overnight Health Care — Presented by National Taxpayers Union — Buttigieg targets Warren, Sanders on health care ahead of debate | Judge overturns ObamaCare transgender protections | Poll sees support drop for 'Medicare for All' Lewandowski refuses to say whether Trump has offered him a pardon MORE (D-Pa.) tweeted of the governor's commutation.
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A week after the documentary series "Surviving R. Kelly" became the center of public conversation for its gruesome accounts of alleged sexual and physical abuse of multiple young girls by the singer (which R. Kelly has denied in the past), Brown's commutation extends a much-needed conversation on the impact of sexual assault and sex trafficking on young, black women.
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In an increasing trend, however, we have had Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush's notorious, and probably self-exculpatory, Iran-contra pardons (encouraged by his attorney general, William Barr), the sordid pardon by Bill Clinton of the fugitive financier Marc Rich that you cite, George W. Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence and now Mr. Trump.
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Dana Gold, a senior fellow at the Government Accountability Project, an advocacy and legal organization that supports and defends whistleblowers for the sanctity of democracy, told Broadly that there is ample reason that a commutation of Manning's sentence could and should be justified—from the unprecedented length of her sentence, to the fact that Manning did not intend to harm the United Stated—but she ultimately doubts that this will happen.
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Once a federally prosecuted defendant is sentenced, except in extremely unusual cases where a commutation (which makes a prisoner eligible for early release) or even a pardon (he is immediately released) is granted by the president, or where the defendant has provided the government with post-sentence cooperation after which his sentence can be lowered, albeit only based on the government's motion, the ballgame is over for him in terms of his sentence.
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But if we consider them instead to be fundamental, and if we additionally assume that the algebra of quantum theory has a property called non-commutation, meaning that the order in which you do calculations matters (in contrast to the multiplication of two numbers, which can be done in any order), Clifton, Bub and Halvorson have shown that these rules too give rise to superposition, entanglement, uncertainty, nonlocality and so on: the core phenomena of quantum theory.
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