Summary
Chalmers Lavette Hendricks received a commutation of sentence on December 19, 2016, from President Barack Obama. Hendricks had been convicted in federal court of conspiracy to violate narcotic laws involving cocaine, possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon during a drug trafficking crime, and possession of firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon on two counts. The commutation reduced his sentence, though the specific original sentence length and the details of the reduction are not provided in the available record.
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Commutation · December 19, 2016
Granted by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Conspiracy to violate narcotic laws (cocaine); possession/distribution cocaine (crack); possession of a firearm by convicted felon during drug trafficking crime; possession of firearm/ammunition by convicted felon (two counts)
Original sentence: 300 months imprisonment · 120 months supervised release (sentenced March 6, 1998, Western District of North Carolina).
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