Posted on 05/06/2016 9:14:45 AM PDT by DFG
A Dallas drug dealer is one of 58 federal convicts whose sentences have been reduced recently by the Obama administration.
Wayland Wilson was sentenced to 37 years in prison for a conspiracy drug charge in 1993, including possession and intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine and marijuana, according to an appeal. Despite the offense being Wilson’s first, the judge had no choice in the sentencing because of federal guidelines at the time, KTVT-TV (Channel 11) reports. After Thursday’s decision, he is now set to be released Sept. 2.
“I knew his case would be reviewed, but I didn’t think this quickly. But Thursday, I got a call from the Pardon Office in Washington, D.C., telling me President Obama had commuted his sentence,” Wilson’s attorney Brittany Byrd told the station. “It was the most incredible feeling. I was so overjoyed for him and the thought of him being reunited with his mom and children, after spending two decades in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.”
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com ...
> Don’t insult me. I’ve been a street police officer. The crack industry is saturated with the most vicious violence imaginable, not to mention the tangential destroyed lives.
As was the alcohol industry during Prohibition. It’s the law that creates the violence. Crack wouldn’t even exist without those laws.
How about alcohol sales? How many fights, brawls and broken families, deaths, and the busted up are in that category? The story says this guy has no history of violence and one drug offense?
Cut him loose and fill his cage with these in D.C. who driven the country into the ground.
Non violent? LOL.
Your definition and mine are far different.
From the record:
” (2) using firearms during a drug trafficking crime; (3) using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking; (4) using a residence located within 1000 feet of a secondary school for the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine; and (5) money laundering.”
The only reason he didn’t kill anyone is he was slow on the draw. If he (or anyone) is ever caught selling drugs to kids, they should be drawn and quartered on the spot.
The guy was a street thug, pure and simple. He will see the inside of a cell again, and soon.
I like the way you put that.
The big dealers are folk heroes, at least to parts of their community. Look at the rap acts and lyrics.
It’s all political, to rally the ignorant to vote.
> (2) using firearms during a drug trafficking crime;
This is actually a gun prohibitionist tactic. Interesting that you support it. Note there is no charge that he fired at anyone or used the firearm in any way.
If you are alleging that possession of a firearm is an act of violence, you are a gun-grabber, pure and simple.
Other than that, there’s not a shred of violence in any of the text you posted. The man sold something that the government didn’t want him to sell, and the government used violence against him. That’s the ONLY violence in this story.
With any luck this will be your new next door neighbor. It appears you fully support his action and lifestyle.
Sounds like you’ve run out of arguments.
But I don’t think we’re done here yet. You raised a very interesting point that sheds a lot of light on your point of view.
Why exactly do you believe that possession of a firearm is an act of violence?
Only because a firearm was in the home. Most reading that would assume the suspect physically picked up and used a weapon while selling and or buying drugs.
I know what the law says, but the fact remains the suspect never shot or killed anyone nor did he attempt to, did he?
Looks like we got a gun-grabber on our hands here.
You bet.
I wonder how many of these are serving time on a plea deal whereby the actual crime was far more serious but reduced so as to get a guilty plea, and save time and dollars of a trial by jury???
Well, I disagree. 37 years for selling drugs is utterly insane. In Stalin’s USSR 10 years was the maximum sentence. A “tenner” was the nightmare sentence and the world thought it unbelievably long.
The average murderer spends less than 20 years in most states. Armed robbery gets you less than 10, often less than 5.
Obama is a flaming A-hole. But these mandatory minimum sentences are idiotic. Id like to see someone explain to Jefferson or Madison that someone was spending 37 years in prison for selling a plant extract.
“(2) using firearms during an drug trafficking crime; (3) using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking; (4) using a residence located within 1000 feet of a secondary school for the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine; and (5) money laundering.””
Substitute “firearms” for “drugs”, then read it again.
This is what will be used in a few years because you carried a pistol, when you were selling it to a person you spoke to on the phone. You went to his house, and there was a school 2 blocks away that had nothing to do with your transaction, and you didn’t declare the “income” on your taxes.
37 years. So called “conservatives’ happily building cages for others should notice that they fit neatly inside too. That isn’t a coincidence.
How about pardons for the two Border Patrol agents presently in prison for killing the Mexican drug dealer...Buckwheat is a disgrace.
Solid point. But in that case Campeon and Ramos were pardoned by Bush on the last day of his presidency. Kinda nice since Bush and one of his minions prosecuted them in the first place at the request of Mexico.
The guys were released in 2009, incarcerated an entire month after Bush ordered the sentence commuted. Bastards all in this government. An extra month to the government was a thoughtless thing. It was another month of unjust hell to those men.
At least the guy’s got a work history...He’ll be able to get right back into business...
Solid point. But in that case Campeon and Ramos were pardoned by Bush on the last day of his presidency. Kinda nice since Bush and one of his minions prosecuted them in the first place at the request of Mexico.
The guys were released in 2009, incarcerated an entire month after Bush ordered the sentence commuted. Bastards all in this government. An extra month to the government was a thoughtless thing. It was another month of unjust hell to those men.
Thank you very much for the update. I was unaware that those two fine gents had been released. That travesty has bothered me for a long time..thanks again.
Have a great weekend..
Hussein is about lawlessness in every way.
And just to be totally accurate GW did not pardon Ramos and Campeon. He merely commuted their sentences so they still live with the stigma of their convictions. GW had to cover for his good buddy prosecutor Johnny Sutton who was in danger of being charged with prosecutorial misconduct.
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