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Drug Dealer Commuted By Obama Caught With Half Kilo Of Cocaine

A drug dealer who had his sentence commuted by Obama is back behind bars after being caught with half a kilo of cocaine after crashing his car into another motorist while allegedly fleeing from a drug deal gone wrong. Robert Martinez Gill, 68, had his life sentence commuted by President Obama along with a record-breaking 1,700 other federal inmates on drugs charges. He had been serving prison time since 1992 for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy – and he made the most of Obama’s clemency by going right back to the life he left behind. San Antonio Express-News reports: Obama wrote in a signed notification that he granted Gill’s application “because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. … Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity.” In interviews last year, Gill said he sustained hope even as his three co-defendants died behind bars. “I believed there were people in government with rational minds who sooner or later would realize that the sentence wasn’t fair,” Gill said then. “Yes, you have the thought that you’re going to die in prison — that’s a human reaction. But there’s always the possibility that they’ll acknowledge [...]

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