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April 30, 2021
Great example of clemency leading to more compassion . in the form of compassionate release thanks to FIRST STEP Act reforms
I am not sure if anyone is trying to make a comprehensive list of the wide array of factors that federal courts have referenced in granting sentence reductions under the (so-called compassionate release) statutory provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ever since the FIRST STEP Act allowed federal courts to directly reduce sentence without awaiting a motion by the Bureau of Prisons. Thankfully, district and circuit court have consistently recognized that, in the word of the Second Circuit in
Bobby Ferguson, friend of Kwame Kilpatrick granted early release from prison
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Bobby Ferguson, who was sentenced to a 21-year prison term was released after only serving just eight years.
DETROIT - The contractor who went to federal prison for helping former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick create a criminal enterprise years ago was just released by a judge.
Bobby Ferguson, who was sentenced to a 21-year prison term was released after only serving just eight years.
He was let out on compassionate grounds by a federal judge only three months after Kilpatrick had his 28-year prison sentence commuted by former President Donald Trump.
Judge orders Kwame Kilpatrick crony Bobby Ferguson released from prison 10 years early
Bobby Ferguson
Bobby Ferguson, the Detroit contractor tied to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick s corruption scandal, was ordered Thursday to be released from prison nearly a decade before the end of his sentence.
The order to free Ferguson from the Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, was made by Judge Nancy Edmunds of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under the compassionate release provision. It comes about four months after then-President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of the disgraced former mayor.
Ferguson s family and supporters had been rallying for his release, arguing Ferguson shouldn t face a harsher punishment than his good friend Kilpatrick, who they say orchestrated the crimes. But prosecutors said he should remain in prison for ripping off the city with corrupt contracts.
by Violet Ikonomova Bobby Ferguson They were friends who received two of the longest sentences ever handed down for public corruption, but today Bobby Ferguson is a free man, three months after his co-defendant, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was granted clemency by outgoing President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds opened the cell door for Ferguson on Thursday, after he served seven years of his 21-year sentence at a federal prison in eastern Ohio. Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years. It would be inequitable for the defendant to complete the lengthy sentence originally imposed while the more culpable co-defendant who had received an even lengthier sentence, has been released, Edmunds wrote in her release order.
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