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Truckers are refusing to drive through Colorado after a fellow trucker was sentenced to 110 years for a crash that was not his fault.
It was proven he had no control over his brakes when his big rig crashed killing 4 people but he was still sentenced to jail for the rest of his life so, truckers across the country organized a boycott calling for his clemency.
The top Senate Democrat will introduce a bill to decriminalize pot at the federal level. It is one of the furthest-reaching legislative efforts by any congressional leader affecting marijuana policy.
Legalizing marijuana is becoming more and more popular each year. While only 31% of Americans supported it in 2000, now nearly double (61%) support it today.
More politicians are supporting it as well. John Boehner recently joined the board of a marijuana company and is supporting legalization efforts. And Chuck Schumer is introducing a bill to decriminalize pot at the federal level.
With mass incarceration coming under increasing scrutiny, and with modern culture becoming more accepting of marijuana, it’s a no brainer to decriminalize pot. And it’s exciting to see politicians on both sides of the aisle advocating for it.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-mandatory-minimum-sentencing-drug-crimes-235b5dd23cf70bead9f8f23d659a572d
How important can the meaning of a single word be? In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the interpretation could affect the length of thousand
The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of 'buts' & 'ifs' over the meaning of 'and'
Under current Virginia laws, judges are required to impose at least a certain amount of jail or prison time on a host of crimes — from guns to drugs to assaulting a police officer. That could change.
Dad gets life for killing daughter
Dad gets life for killing daughter
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Petrit Lekaj gets life for murder of daughter Sabrina <!-- Petrit Lekaj, 49, left, has been sentenced to at least 20 years jail for the murder of his daughter, Sabrina, right.
Adelaide woman Sabrina Lekaj was a bright and beautiful 20-year-old university student who when not studying diligently towards her radiology degree enjoyed socialising with her friends.
Her domineering…
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WASHINGTON | Trump pardons ranchers in case that inspired 2016 occupation
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WASHINGTON | Trump pardons ranchers in case that inspired 2016 occupation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pardoned two ranchers whose case sparked the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.
Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted in 2012 of intentionally and maliciously setting fires on public lands. The arson crime carried a minimum prison sentence of five years, but a sympathetic federal judge, on his last day before retirement, decided the penalty was too stiff and gave the father and son much lighter prison terms.
Prosecutors won an appeal and the Hammonds were resentenced in October 2015 to serve the mandatory minimum.
The decision sparked a protest from Ammon Bundy and dozens of others, who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near the Hammond ranch in southeastern Oregon from Jan. 2 to Feb. 11, 2016, complaining the Hammonds were victims of federal overreach.
The armed occupiers changed the refuge’s name to the Harney County Resource Center, reflecting their belief that the federal government has only a very limited right to own property within a state’s borders.
Bundy was arrested during a Jan. 26 traffic stop, effectively ending the protest. Another key occupier, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, was fatally shot that day by Oregon State Police.
In a statement Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called that decision to resentence the Hammonds “unjust.”
“The Hammonds are devoted family men, respected contributors to their local community, and have widespread support from their neighbors, local law enforcement, and farmers and ranchers across the West,” she said. “Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency.”
The pardons are the latest in a growing list of clemency actions by Trump, who has been using his pardon power with increasingly frequency in recent months.
Trump has been especially pleased with news coverage of his actions, which included commuting the sentence of Alice Johnson, a woman serving a life sentence for drug offenses whose case had been championed by reality television star Kim Kardashian West.
He has repeatedly referenced emotional video of Johnson being freed from prison and running into her family members’ arms, and has said he’s considering thousands more cases — both famous and not.
But critics say the president could be ignoring valid claims for clemency as he works outside the typical pardon process, focusing on cases brought to his attention by friends, famous people and conservative media pundits.
Aides say that Trump has been especially drawn to cases in which he believes the prosecution may have been politically motivated — a situation that may remind him of his own position at the center of the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian election meddling.
Many have also seen the president as sending a signal with his pardons to former aides and associates caught up in the probe, or lashing out at enemies like former FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the prosecution of lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, whom Trump has said he is thinking of pardoning.
By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER , Associated Press
Drunk mums jailed for 'vicious' assault
