Judge Raymond Alvin Jackson was nominated to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Alvin_Jackson
It is what it is.
Here in Pa there is a movement to eliminate the "Life without parole" charge.
A Life with no hope sentence at an early age would have doomed most of us here in FR if we had been caught.