WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is giving an early push to the Obama administration’s new program to encourage nonviolent federal prisoners to apply for early release.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman encouraged the court-appointed lawyers for defendant Byron Lamont McDade to pursue clemency for McDade — a prisoner the judge sentenced to 27 years in prison over a decade ago.
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