Friday, February 12, 2021

THE BIDEN CHALLENGE

 THIS IS THE BIDEN CHALLENGE GRANT CLEMENCY TO NONVIOLENT MARIJUANA OFFENDERS 

 

In January, President Trump granted clemency to 7 individuals serving sentences of life without parole for marijuana and one with a sentence of 50 years. 

These are sentences that assure that you will die in a cage for a nonviolent marijuana offence.  Today,  politicians are receiving campaign donations from cannabis businesses for a substance that is as illegal federally as the day these individuals were sentenced.  

The marijuana industry has investments from politicians, entertainers, wall street, educators as well as hundreds of thousands of individuals who nibble in their investment portfolios.  Cannabis is still on the Controlled Substance Act as a Schedule 1 drug designating it as more dangerous than fentanyl and oxycontin.   To be consistent, marijuana businesses should be prosecuted in the same manner as these unfortunate nonviolent people.  

The Cannabis industry and the criminal justice system cannot have integrity as long as these sentences stand.


President Biden can pardon this category immediately and right this wrong. 


These are three people with life sentences for marijuana who need immediate clemency from President Biden.  If criminal justice is a priority for this administration it needs to start now.


Hector Ruben McGurk    25843-180
Circuit                              4th
Age:                                  60
Charges:                            Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute,                                               Conspiracy to money launder
Incarcerated since:            2003
Trial or plea:                     Trial - first trial ended with a hung jury
                                          Prosecutors found another cooperating witness 
                                          and tried Hector again.






Ismael Lira                        45946-190
Circuit                               5th
Charges:                            Conspiracy to distribute marijuana
Priors:                                None
Sentenced                          Oct. 6,2006
Trial or plea:                      Trial










Pedro Moreno                    71498-079
Circuit                                5th
Age:                                    60
Charge:                                
Incarcerated since:             1996
Trial or plea:                       Plea

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