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Back In Jail For Attempted Distribution Of Cocaine…



Good call Obama....

Quote:A San Antonio man who was freed from life in prison by President Barack Obama is back behind bars after allegedly crashing his vehicle into another motorist and undercover police cars while fleeing from a drug deal Thursday.

Robert M. Gill, 68, whose life sentence for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy was commuted by Obama and expired in 2015, was profiled last year in the Express-News about his readjustment to life on the outside.

Jailed from the time of his arrest in 1990, Gill earned a legal education inside prison libraries and successfully petitioned the then-president for a second chance after his court appeals were exhausted.

He was taken to federal court Friday, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad ordered him held without bond pending a bail hearing on Feb. 16. Gill is charged with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.

He again faces a potential sentence with a mandatory minimum, five years, and could get up to 40.

Gill was one of about 1,700 federal inmates whose sentences Obama commuted as part of a broader campaign to give relief to nonviolent offenders serving long prison terms that dated to a frenzied period in the nation’s war on drugs.

Obama wrote in a signed notification that he granted Gill’s application “because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. … Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity.”

In interviews last year, Gill said he sustained hope even as his three co-defendants died behind bars.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...to-9327989

lol

Someone remind me again how these long drug sentences are unfair to those busted.

Sums up Obama's failure.

Im not going to delve into the background of this and every POTUS has the power to commute sentences he feels appropriate. I think Obamas statement to this guy says it all. "because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around....Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity." To be fair...This is not Obamas fault that he is back in jail. This guy evidently was a model prisoner. He just is not a model citizen.

You have to laugh at that one.

Another early release was gunned down in the halfway house he was released to