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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly explosive crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew

Victims families, even the judge agrees its too much. >> if i had the discretion, it would not be my sentence. >> reporter: the district attorney has now filed a motion to reduce the sentence and is facing controversy over this facebook post by a deputy da who worked on the case showing. a brake shoe engraved with the case number she says it was a gift her boss says the post and the trophy were in very poor taste. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the colorado governor tells nbc news his legal tea...

"He was not drunk or under the influence, his brakes on the semi tractor-trailer failed," Kardashian-West wrote in a tweet on Tuesday night.

That we are talking about pardons and were talking about stone, is pretty remarkable. here is a guy who basically gets his sentence commuted in the fall in the run up to the election. essentially sprung from donald trump effectively. to go out and to get back doing whatever he was up to. he is around january six, we know that. he is in d.c. there is pictures of him meeting with people. we do not know the level of his involvement. and then he gets a pardon. a full pardon subsequent to that. and i...

Sprung from prison by donald trump effectively to go out and get back out there doing whatever roger stone stuff he was up to. hes around january 6th. we know that. you know, hes in d.c. theres pictures of him meeting with people. we dont know the level of his involvement. and then he gets a pardon, a full pardon subsequent to that. and that itself is just like a fairly remarkably corrupt fact pattern before you even get to anything else. >> yeah, we were saying that at the time, chris. i think ...

President Biden has the unchecked power to grant clemency to any federal prisoner. But he hasn't used it.

More than three decades after her husband was slain in their New Hampshire home, Pamela Smart has "accepted responsibility for her role in Gregg Smart's murder"...

Mindy Dodd, a Smyrna resident who was convicted of murder in 2001, has been granted an immediate parole hearing and sentence commutation by Gov. Bill Lee.

A moment is being taken to briefly speak to Julius Jones’ “delimited commutation.”

While commuting the death sentence of three convicts in the Shakti Mills rape case, the Court made pertinent observations on the role of constitutional courts.