Commutation · August 30, 2016

Summary

James Clinton Patterson, Jr. received a commutation of his sentence on August 30, 2016, from President Barack Obama. Patterson had been convicted in 2002 in the Middle District of North Carolina of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B), for which he received an original sentence of 262 months imprisonment and 96 months supervised release.