Summary
Max Orvel Plumlee received a commutation of sentence on January 19, 2017, from President Barack Obama. Plumlee had been convicted in federal district court of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, eight counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, two counts of use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. The commutation reduced his sentence, though the specific details of the original sentence length and the reduction granted are not fully specified in the available record.
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Clemency record
Commutation · January 19, 2017
Granted by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine (eight counts); use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime (two counts); distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (
Original sentence: 300 months imprisonment · 60 months supervised release (Eastern District of Virginia).
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