Obama gave him a second chance. Now he’s back in jail.

Published February 6, 2017 11:27pm ET



President Obama did his best to show mercy to convicts, issuing pardons to nearly 2,000 non-violent federal offenders during his eight years in office. It isn’t his fault that not all of them made the most of it. But you don’t read every day about a someone getting a presidential pardon and then getting shipped back to prison a year later.

A Texas man whose life sentence on drug charges was commuted by former President Obama is back behind bars after cops caught him with more than two pounds of cocaine following a high-speed chase, according to a report.

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