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The Tragic Story of Eugenia Jennings ( Sentence Commuted by Obama) (TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime)
President Obama has decided to pardon more than a White House turkey this
Thanksgiving. Yesterday, he issued 5 pardons and commuted one sentence.
The pardons are unimpressive. Three of the pardons were issued to people who
had received probation more than a decade ago. The other two pardons were
issued to people who finished serving their sentences 20 years ago.
On the other hand, the commutation deserves praise: Obama commuted the
sentence of a woman named Eugenia Jennings, who was sentenced in 2001 to 22
years (262 months) for distributing crack cocaine in the Southern District of
Illinois. It was her third felony crack conviction. Under Obama’s order,
she’ll be released next week, after serving 10 years. She’ll still have to
serve 8 years of supervised release.
I just finished reading her 2001 sentencing transcript and her rejected 2008
motion to reduce her sentence under the Sentencing Commission’s two level
reduction in crack cocaine guidelines that year. Both are available on PACER.
It’s a very interesting story, one the sentencing judge, G. Patrick Murphy,
called a tragedy.
Here’s the tragedy of Eugenia Jennings:[More...]
First, why did she get 262 months? She pleaded guilty and was sentenced for
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