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Supreme Court Seems Unlikely to Support Reduced Sentences for Crack Offenders Getty Images Kevin Daley • May 4, 2021 4:30 pm SHARE In its latest foray into the war on drugs, the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed ready to say that low-level crack cocaine offenders do not qualify for reduced sentences under a bipartisan criminal justice reform law. The 2018 First Step Act made some drug offenders eligible for resentencing, but four federal courts and the Trump administration said its benefits don't extend to people convicted for possessing small quantities of crack cocaine. Tarahrick Terr...

Since June 28, 2004 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 con...

Fox News' Carlson. Photo: Carlson Twitter Fox News host Tucker Carlson -- a graduate of St. George’s School in Middletown --  is facing a number of new controversies.  According to multiple reports along with photos, Carlson’s 1991 college yearbook at Trinity College has him listing himself as being part of the “Dan White Society.” Milk at the time was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. “Tucker Carlson appears to endorse Harvey Milk's murderer in college yearbook,” reports The Week.  His yearbook profile also lists him as being part of the "Jess...

A federal judge has freed a man serving three life sentences for a notorious Hartford drug murder based in large part on his record of rehabilitation over almost a quarter century in prison and an extraordinary plea for leniency from two prosecutors who once presented a case for his execution.

Wilfredo Perez, who approved a notorious murder, is freed from a life sentence as harsh drug punishments are re-evaluated Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant A federal judge has freed a man serving three life sentences for a notorious Hartford drug murder based in large part on his record of rehabilitation over almost a quarter century in prison and an extraordinary plea for leniency from two prosecutors who once presented a case for his execution. Wilfredo Perez led a group of men who sold kilograms of cocaine from an auto repair business on Hartford’s south side in the 1990...