#Prisonworld View – President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons

via The White House – Office of the Press Secretary

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons.

The President granted commutations of sentence to the following eight individuals:

Sidney Earl Johnson, Jr. – Mobile, AL

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; use of a communication facility to commit a felony (Southern District of Alabama)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Apr. 13, 1994)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on June 12, 2015.

Cathy Lee Jones – Portsmouth, VA

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute heroin and cocaine base (Eastern District of Virginia)

Sentence: 262 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Apr. 29, 2003)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

Rickey Marcell McCall – Birmingham, AL

Offense: Possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (two counts) (Northern District of Alabama)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 120 months’ supervised release (Jan. 11, 2001)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

Larry Nailor – Memphis, TN

Offense: Possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute approximately 50 grams of cocaine base (Western District of Tennessee)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Nov. 7, 1997)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

Antonio Gromyko Reeves – Kennett, MO

Offense: Distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base (Eastern District of Missouri)

Sentence: 188 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (May 21, 2004)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

Jennifer Regenos – Muscatine, IA

Offense: Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine (Southern District of Iowa)

Sentence: 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Mar. 25, 2002)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

Barbara Lammsies Scrivner – Portland, OR

Offense: Conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine (District of Oregon)

Sentence: 360 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (July 3, 1995)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on June 12, 2015.

Israel Abel Torres – Dallas, TX

Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (Eastern District of Texas)

Sentence: Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $1,000 fine (Dec. 4, 1998)

Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 15, 2015.

The President granted pardons to the following twelve individuals:

Roy Norman Auvil – Bartonville, IL

Offense: Possession of an unregistered distilling apparatus; working a distillery on which the required sign is not placed (District of South Carolina)

Sentence: Five years’ probation (Nov. 16, 1964)

Bernard Bryan Bulcourf – McIntosh, FL

Offense: Counterfeiting Federal Reserve notes (Southern District of Florida)

Sentence: 90 days’ confinement in a community treatment center, followed by three years’ probation (Nov. 18, 1988)

Steve Charlie Calamars – San Antonio, TX

Offense: Possession of phenyl-2-propanone with intent to manufacture a quantity of methamphetamine (Western District of Texas)

Sentence: 57 months’ imprisonment; three years’ supervised release (May 31, 1989; as amended Apr. 8, 1994)

Diane Mary DeBarri, fka Diane Mary Wilhelm – Fairless Hills, PA

Offense: Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine; distribution of methamphetamine (Eastern District of Pennsylvania)

Sentence: 90 days’ imprisonment; five years’ probation conditioned on performance of community service as directed by the court (June 15, 1984)

Donnie Keith Ellison – London, KY

Offense: Manufacture of marijuana (Eastern District of Kentucky)

Sentence: Five months’ imprisonment; three years’ supervised release (Sept. 1, 1995)

John Marshall French – Clovis, CA

Offense: Conspiracy to transport a stolen motor vehicle in interstate commerce (District of South Carolina)

Sentence: Three years’ probation conditioned on performance of 100 hours of community service and payment of $2,337 restitution (Mar. 2, 1993)

Ricardo Marcial Lomedico, Sr. – Point Roberts, WA

Offense: Misappropriation of bank funds by an employee (Western District of Washington)

Sentence: Five years’ imprisonment (Nov. 21, 1969)

David Raymond Mannix – Lafayette, OR

Offense: Conspiracy to commit larceny; theft of military property (U.S. Marine Corps general court-martial convened at Camp Pendleton, CA)

Sentence: 75 days’ confinement; forfeiture of $350 pay per month for three months; reduction to Private First Class, pay grade E-2 (Oct. 18, 1989, as approved Mar. 2, 1990)