Obama Grants Early Release For Three Locals

May 6, 2016

Thursday, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentenced of 58 people, including three from Escambia County:

Christopher Gulley –  Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (June 12, 1996).

Larry Lewis –  Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; Sentence: 360 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $1,000 fine (October 20, 1999); amended to 324 months’ imprisonment  (June 18, 2006); amended to 262 months’ imprisonment (July 2, 2015)

David Anthony Trotter – Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.  Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (October 15, 1993)

Gulley and Trotter will be released on September 2, while Lewis is set for release on May 5, 2017.

Comments

9 Responses to “Obama Grants Early Release For Three Locals”

  1. No Excuses on May 10th, 2016 7:35 pm

    David, Too funny! No, that in and of itself is not a reason to keep a person in prison – I only mentioned it to show that they had not yet developed enough of a social conscience to realize that they smelled bad and needed to bathe. Put that with all the other things they had going against them and it’s a pretty good bet that they will be back in prison before too long.

  2. David Huie Green on May 10th, 2016 5:45 pm

    CONSIDERING;
    “Many had body odor and were in no way prepared to be released. ”

    I don’t believe and certainly HOPE body odor is not considered sufficient reason to hold a person in prison.

    David for Right Guard

  3. No Excuses on May 9th, 2016 9:20 am

    Clemency is not necessarily a bad thing if the recipient of such has shown a major change in attitude and has accomplished some worthwhile things while in prison – things like earning a GED or getting educated in a trade or other way to have gainful employment on the legal side of the aisle prior to their being released.

    Unfortunately, the few that I am familiar with who received clemency did not meet many of any of the above mentioned accomplishments. Most were African American and many had come from a higher level of incarceration and were absolutely LOST at a minimum security level prison. Many had body odor and were in no way prepared to be released. The sad fact is: Many of them will go back to prison because they were not properly prepared for release, nor did they earn it.

  4. Bill on May 6th, 2016 9:02 pm

    They will be back. Watch

  5. Nelson on May 6th, 2016 6:37 pm

    Actually Al Capone died in his home. He was released because he was no longer a threat to society.

  6. Keven Johns on May 6th, 2016 12:57 pm

    I can think of one other person who could easily be released under the president’s no violence in the crime guidelines… if he had not died in jail… all he ever got charged with was tax evasion. He spent the rest of his life in jail for failing to pay his taxes… this mean old government… his name was Al Capone. I wonder how many of Al Capone’s our president is releasing back into our neighborhoods. The federal government does not go after petty criminals… things that make me go Hmmm.

  7. Dan on May 6th, 2016 7:50 am

    No one should ever be doing life in prison for that. This war on drugs is a joke. I would understand if it it was meth or something like that. In South America the stuff is used to treat all kinds of ailments. Job well done by our president.

  8. Darth Soetoro on May 6th, 2016 7:41 am

    Apparently President Obama thinks that distributing cocaine and getting people addicted is not a big deal. It destroys their lives and hurts everyone around them, but it’s not a problem, according to him. Welcome to the Dark Side!

  9. Steve on May 6th, 2016 6:15 am

    Let them live in his neighbor hood not mine!!

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