Biden Commutes Sentences of 11 Convicts with Meth and Cocaine Offenses, Citing ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ | The Gateway Pundit

On Friday, Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 11 people who had been serving time for drug offenses, based on a press release from the White Home.

The people whose sentences had been commuted had been convicted of varied drug-related offenses, together with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distribution of cocaine base, and distribution of crack cocaine inside proximity to a college.

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“America was based on the precept of equal justice beneath regulation. Elected officers on each side of the aisle, religion leaders, civil rights advocates, and regulation enforcement leaders agree that our felony justice system can and may replicate this core worth that makes our communities safer and stronger,” Biden stated in a statement.

“That’s the reason right this moment I’m asserting further steps I’m taking to make the promise of equal justice a actuality,” he added.

“My Administration will proceed to evaluation clemency petitions and ship reforms that advance equal justice, tackle racial disparities, strengthen public security, and improve the wellbeing of all People,” the assertion concluded.

The White Home disclosed the names and particulars of those that have been granted clemency. The total record of people whose sentences have been commuted by Biden is as follows:

1. Felipe Arriaga – Sunnyside, Washington
2. Earlie Deacon Barber – Dothan, Alabama
3. James Michael Barber – Gastonia, North Carolina
4. Anthony Ewing – Union Metropolis, Georgia
5. Quittman Andre Goodley – Austin, Texas
6. Deondre Cordell Higgins – Kansas Metropolis, Missouri
7. Leroy Lymons – Pensacola, Florida
8. Angel Rosario – Allentown, Pennsylvania
9. Esaias J. Tucker – Tallahassee, Florida
10. Darryl Allen Winkfield – Augusta, Georgia
11. Kenneth Winkler – Indianapolis, Indiana

From the news release:

Felipe Arriaga – Sunnyside, Washington
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine (District of Montana).
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (December 17, 2009).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Earlie Deacon Barber – Dothan, Alabama
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute greater than 5 kilograms of a mix and substance containing cocaine and greater than 50 grams of a mix and substance containing cocaine base (Northern District of Florida).
Sentence: Life imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (September 9, 2009).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

James Michael Barber – Gastonia, North Carolina
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute no less than 5 kilograms of cocaine and 280 grams of cocaine base (Western District of North Carolina).
Sentence: 15 years and eight months of imprisonment, five-year time period of supervised launch (February 13, 2015).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on February 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the five-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Anthony Ewing – Union Metropolis, Georgia
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (crack) (Central District of Illinois).
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment (as amended by order of June 22, 2017), 10-year time period of supervised launch (January 22, 2016).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Quittman Andre Goodley – Austin, Texas
Offense: Conspiracy to own with intent to distribute and distribute 280 grams or extra of cocaine base (Western District of Texas).
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (July 18, 2012).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on February 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Deondre Cordell Higgins – Kansas Metropolis, Missouri
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or extra of cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base (Western District of Missouri).
Sentence: Life imprisonment, no supervised launch (August 30, 2011).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to a time period of 25 years, leaving intact and in impact all different elements of the sentence and with the ultimate two years of his incarceration in prerelease custody, to the utmost extent permitted by regulation.

Leroy Lymons – Pensacola, Florida
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or extra of a mix and substance containing a detectable quantity of cocaine (Northern District of Florida).
Sentence: Life imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (June 12, 2012).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to a time period of 27 years, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Angel Rosario – Allentown, Pennsylvania
Offense: Distribution of 28 grams or extra of cocaine base (crack) inside 1,000 ft of a public faculty; distribution of 28 grams or extra of cocaine base (crack); distribution of cocaine base (crack) inside 1,000 ft of a public faculty (two counts); distribution of cocaine base (crack) (two counts) (Jap District of Pennsylvania).
Sentence: 21 years and 10 months of imprisonment, eight-year time period of supervised launch, and $2,500 positive (July 19, 2012).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the eight-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Esaias J. Tucker – Tallahassee, Florida
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute greater than 5 kilograms of cocaine and greater than 280 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or extra of cocaine and greater than 28 grams of cocaine base (Northern District of Florida).
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (January 29, 2013).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Darryl Allen Winkfield – Augusta, Georgia
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute, and to own cocaine and cocaine base with intent to distribute; distribution of cocaine hydrochloride (three counts); possession of cocaine and cocaine base with intent to distribute (Southern District of Georgia).
Sentence: Life imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (September 29, 1998).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on April 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.

Kenneth Winkler – Indianapolis, Indiana
Offense: Conspiracy to own with the intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or extra of precise methamphetamine (Southern District of Indiana).
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment, 10-year time period of supervised launch (July 23, 2012).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to run out on February 20, 2024, leaving intact and in impact the 10-year time period of supervised launch with all its circumstances and all different elements of the sentence.