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president any political capital, it won t boost his sagging approval ratings or help the democrats in the midterms. in other words, there s really no political margin in it for this president. but this is one of those case where is we get to see the progressive president barack obama shining through. joining me this morning daf that linser, managing editor for msn msnbc.com and the reporter who broke this story about aaron s botched commutation case in 2012. with her are anthea butler from the university of pennsylvania, ovik roy, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, and lisa cook, economic professor at michigan state university. thanks for coming in. you really did break this story and have been all over this story. walk us through how clarence aaron s case came up again and how this happened. sure. i love the way you introduced him because he was a wonderful case regardless. his sentence was so shocking to so many people when it happened, and this was at the height of the drug
year, aaron s case was mishandled by rodgers who failed to accurately convey the views of the u.s. attorney and the judge. it drew national attention including on this program to aaron s case. it also earned the attention of president obama, who in july of 2012 called for aaron s case to be reviewed again. then this thursday, just over a week after the 20th anniversary of aaron s conviction, the white house announced that he was one of eight nonviolent drug offenders, seven black and one latino, whose sentences would be commuted. aaron can go home in april. in his official statement, the president said, commuting the sentences of these eight americans is an important step toward restoring fundamental ideals of justice and fairness but it must not be the last. that s notable give than president obama has the lowest clemency record in recent history. this week s decision to commute the sentences of eight inmates brings the total number of commutations to nine. arguably this move won t
his nonviolent role in a drug deal involving nine kilograms of cocaine and one kilogram of crack. it was his first offense and he was neither the dealer, the supplier, nor the buyer of the drugs. but he received three life sentences without parole from the judge. i think to myself, what in the world was i supposed to doing three life sentences about? i just couldn t believe that this was occurring to me. aaron first applied for commutation two years after that interview. it was a good case, but it grew even better in 2008 when both the new u.s. attorney for southern alabama and even the judge who sentenced aaron started to advocate for commutation. the person who could make that happen, however, was this guy, the u.s. pardon attorney, ronald rodgers. but according to a report last
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