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@realDonaldTrump President Trump granted Duke Tanner clemency after 16 years in prison
https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1319338985144111107?s=20 ^

Posted on 10/22/2020 3:38:32 PM PDT by BellaMac

President Trump granted Duke Tanner clemency after 16 years in prison

He was sentenced to LIFE in prison for a FIRST time, NON VIOLENT crime because of Joe Biden’s crime bill

God bless you & good luck with your SECOND CHANCE

Let’s make his POWERFUL message go viral!


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1 posted on 10/22/2020 3:38:32 PM PDT by BellaMac
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To: BellaMac

Injustice:
Life for first time non violent offense
Vs
Serial felon being let out due to “bail reform” to reoffend at leisure while the above sap continues to rot in prison?


2 posted on 10/22/2020 3:45:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BellaMac

He mentioned that he had been a fighter, who fought at the Trump Casino.


3 posted on 10/22/2020 3:46:45 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BellaMac
He was sentenced to LIFE in prison for a FIRST time, NON VIOLENT crime because of Joe Biden’s crime bill

Thanks for nothing Dementia Joe.

4 posted on 10/22/2020 3:55:42 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Darksheare

Meanwhile, ANTIFA BLM rioters, looters, and killers are routinely being let off soft free.


5 posted on 10/22/2020 3:57:33 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Yup.


6 posted on 10/22/2020 4:00:43 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BellaMac

7 posted on 10/22/2020 4:06:11 PM PDT by caww
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To: BellaMac

Anybody know what his non-violent crime was?


8 posted on 10/22/2020 4:15:45 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Portland Voted for IT)
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To: BellaMac

His Reunion video really touches the heart.
Anyone who has been treated with deep injustice can identify.
Throwing this guy in jail for life was nothing to people like Joe Biden.


9 posted on 10/22/2020 4:16:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Cold Heart

It somehow involved 5 kilos of powder cocaine.


10 posted on 10/22/2020 4:22:43 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Cold Heart

He and his brothers led the ‘non-violent’ Renegades gang in Gary. They ran drugs for years before being caught.

https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/drug-dealer-turns-informant-on-local-boxer/article_03060c51-e567-5a9e-b2f9-300e700c6dfb.html

This is not a grandmother transporting drugs.


11 posted on 10/22/2020 4:26:05 PM PDT by sloanrb
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To: BellaMac

He was convicted of a pretty serious offense. And black pastors were all for this kind of “get tough” sentencing on the folks that were destroying the neighborhoods.
I still wouldn’t vote for Biden .... unless you gave me like $50 million tax-free. C’mon Man!


12 posted on 10/22/2020 4:27:26 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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The question is did anyone die because to the drugs he was peddling?


13 posted on 10/22/2020 4:44:24 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Darksheare

[Injustice:
Life for first time non violent offense
Vs
Serial felon being let out due to “bail reform” to reoffend at leisure while the above sap continues to rot in prison?]


First conviction, perhaps, unless it’s customary for drug dealers to get started with 15 kilos of cocaine (current wholesale price ~20 grand per kilo, if this link is to be believed - http://www.narcoticnews.com/drug-prices/cocaine/):

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1548889.html
[I. Factual Background

During an investigation of two crack houses in Gary, Indiana, a law enforcement task force learned that a man named Warren Moore was a mid-level dealer of crack cocaine. Moore turned out to be a relatively minor player in a larger drug distribution ring. Law enforcement arrested him on April 20, 2004 and convinced him to become a government informant. As an informant, Moore made a controlled purchase of crack cocaine from Erbey Solis on August 31, 2004, after which Solis was arrested, and he in turn also agreed to become a government informant.

The investigation into Moore revealed that appellant Tanner was a high-level drug dealer, and Solis agreed to help the government investigate Tanner’s drug dealing. At the direction of law enforcement, Solis called Tanner and arranged to sell Tanner 15 kilograms of cocaine. The drug deal took place in the parking lot of a drugstore in Gary, Indiana on September 1, 2004. Because it would be unwise (for obvious reasons) to bring such a large amount of real cocaine to the deal, law enforcement provided Solis with 15 kilograms of simulated cocaine. Tanner was arrested when he took possession of the simulated cocaine from Solis.

Once in custody, Tanner quickly provided a full confession implicating himself as a high-level cocaine dealer. In that confession, Tanner identified his main supplier of cocaine, from whom he claimed to have purchased between 10 and 15 kilograms of cocaine on previous occasions. Tanner also named another supplier from whom he had purchased large amounts-between 5 and 10 kilograms at a time. Tanner further admitted that he was attempting to purchase 15 kilograms of cocaine from Solis at the time he was arrested, and he said that he had purchased somewhere between 15 and 25 kilograms of cocaine from Solis in the past.

Tanner was indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, and with attempted possession of 5 kilograms or more of cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846. Tanner was tried on these charges alongside alleged co-conspirator Lance Foster. Both Moore and Solis testified to Tanner’s participation in a multi-state conspiracy to distribute large quantities of crack cocaine. Solis also testified as to his involvement in the sham drug sale that led to Tanner’s arrest, and the prosecution played for the jury recordings of Tanner’s and Solis’s phone calls planning that sale. Particularly damning was the testimony of the two FBI agents who took Tanner’s confession after his arrest. Those agents testified that Tanner had admitted that he was part of a large conspiracy to distribute drugs and that he was attempting to purchase cocaine from Solis when he was arrested. Tanner did not testify. He also did not seriously challenge the government’s overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Tanner chose instead to call a number of character witnesses. The jury convicted Tanner on both counts against him, and the district court sentenced Tanner to life imprisonment.]


Trump has gone where Democrats dared not go. Will this get him more of the black vote? We’ll see.


14 posted on 10/22/2020 4:51:50 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Considering we have violent serial felons walking from “bail reform”, it is injustice for him to be there.
Didn’t say either was correct and right.


15 posted on 10/22/2020 4:54:03 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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[Considering we have violent serial felons walking from “bail reform”, it is injustice for him to be there.
Didn’t say either was correct and right.]


In the cocaine biz, to get to 15 kgs, you’re a fairly big cheese. The typical reason drug bigwigs get caught on these charges rather than murder? You can intimidate witnesses to murder. Harder to intimidate lab techs who confirm that the materials in the accused’s possession are drugs in the quantities stated. In this guy’s case, he was buying 15 kilos of drugs from the stool pigeon the FBI deployed, and he did not even deny that this is what he did.

This is definitely not the traditionally Republican or conservative stance, and doesn’t exactly scream law-and-order. The problem for the Dems is they’re trapped. They can’t exactly give him a hard time, given their voter base. So this is a genius move even though a good bunch of traditional GOP and conservative voters will shake their heads.


16 posted on 10/22/2020 5:06:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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