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| Champ commutes life sentences of Texas meth cook and crack dealer |
| 2016-06-06 |
| [Dallas Morning News] Drug dealers from Garland and Fort Worth who were sentenced to life in prison decades ago will be free men come fall. President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 42 federal prisoners Friday as the White House intensifies its push to free nonviolent drug offenders from prisons. The two North Texans granted clemency are Danny Ray White, 55, and Douglas Ray Dunkins Jr., 50. Both will have served at least two decades in prison when they’re released Oct. 1. White, of Garland, was sentenced to hard time in 1996 for manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine. Court records show he was also found guilty of possessing ethyl ether and a three-neck round-bottom flask, commonly used to cook speed. Dunkins, of Fort Worth, received a mandatory life sentence in 1993 for participating in a crack cocaine-dealing conspiracy, court records show. Had the drug been powder cocaine, the mandatory sentence would have been 20 years. Obama has now shortened the sentences of 348 people during his presidency, more than the previous seven presidents combined. The White House has accelerated its efforts to release prisoners in the tail end of the president’s second term. The Obama administration asked the U.S. Sentencing Commission to allow imprisoned drug offenders to apply for reduced sentences in 2014, and began a program to expedite thousands of clemency requests. That program places emphasis on aiding nonviolent drug offenders who have served more than a decade in jail with good conduct and who would be eligible for shorter sentences were they convicted today. "We are continuing to work in bipartisan fashion to secure those much-needed, long-overdue reforms in Congress so that thousands more deserving individuals may benefit from the second chance that these individuals earned today," White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said in a blog post. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 and a three-neck round-bottom flask, commonly used to cook speed. "It was just a bong I tell you!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-06-06 10:20 |