Commutation · December 19, 2016

Summary

On December 19, 2016, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Jermaine Brown, who was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2016 of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and marijuana; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and distribution of cocaine base. Brown's original sentence of 548 months imprisonment and 60 months supervised release was reduced by the commutation.