Federal clemency record
Clemency granted by Barack Obama
Democratic · January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Michael D. Points
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Merlin Coleman
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2; use of a communication facility to facilitate the commission of the distribution of a controlled substance (three counts), 21 U.S.C. § 843(b); possession with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 843(b)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
James Clinton Patterson, Jr.
Possessed with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Ricardo Gallardo
Conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine and one kilogram or more of heroin, 21 U.S.C. § 846; distribution of 2,006 grams of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute 6.02 kilograms of cocaine and 996.9 grams of heroin, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); money laundering, 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B); engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, 18 U.S.C. § 1957(a)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Gracie Walker
Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Uriah Alfred Rose
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Daxtrell D. Robinson
Possession of 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(iii)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Darryl Lamar Reed
Manufacture and possession with intent to distribute crack and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & 18 U.S.C. § 2
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Lue Gene Swarn
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; use of a communication facility to facilitate the commission of a drug felony, 21 U.S.C. § 843(b)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
William R. Downs
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Derrick Waller
1. Supervised release violation (possession of an unregistered firearm and distribution of cocaine, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5841 & 5861(d) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1));
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Robert Anthony Eberhart
Distribution of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)C); possession of a firearm during drug trafficking, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
James Dillehay
Conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846(a)(1)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Darryl Dewayne Edwards
Attempt to manufacture 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1); possession of a firearm by a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Randolph S. Gustave
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, 21 U.S.C. § 846; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments (two counts), 21 U.S.C. §§1956(h) & (a)(1)(A)(i)
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Eugene Carlton
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)(iii), 846, & 851
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Ali Reno Harden
Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); possession of a firearm having an obliterated serial number, 18 U.S.C. § 922(k); possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 851; possession of a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c); possession of marijuana, 21 U.S.C. §§ 844 & 851
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Mancer L. Barrington, III
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(iii); possession with intent to distribute cocaine , 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(c), and 18 U.S.C. § 2
Commutation · August 30, 2016
Aubrey Jermaine Cummings
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of cocaine base and at least five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 21 U.S.C. § 846
Commutation · August 30, 2016
George E. Smith
Possession with intent to distribute less than five grams of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 860(a); possession with intent to distribute a detectable amount of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 860(a)