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This underscores the ongoing disparity between the drug war and the legalized markets. Weldon Angelos was incarcerated for a non-violent offense. In 2004, he was dealt a mandatory minimum sentence of 55 years spanning numerous marijuana and weapons charges under federal code 924(c), which calls for the stacking of compulsory minimums for dealers carrying guns during their crimes. Angelos contends he did not have a weapon. However, the charge stuck. Angelos, who had no prior offenses as an adult, was bound to a sentence that the presiding District Court Judge, Paul Cassell, did not support. Cassell would become a prominent supporter of commuting Angelos sentence. Over the years, support came from some noteworthy people and businesses, including Snoop Dogg, Senators Mike Lee and Cory Booker, and ....
Robert Gehrke: Trump wiped Weldon Angelosâ record clean, but a bigger problem needs to be addressed Minimum mandatories have locked up people for years longer than is just. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke. | Updated: 3:10 p.m. Every president in my memory has done it, the on-the-way-out-the-door pardons and commutations of prisoners and convicts. Frequently, they become political and naturally the list of pardons so far issued by President Donald Trump is more extreme than that of his predecessors. It includes a rogues gallery of his loyalists and hangers-on. He gave dubious pardons to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and hatchetman Roger Stone, both convicted as part of the Mueller investigation; his son-in-lawâs father, wealthy developer Charles Kushner (more on him later); and Utah Rep. Phil Lyman, whose pardon doesnât matter much since he had served his sentence and paid restitution for damaging pro ....