Obama corrects record for inmate given extra prison time over typo in paperwork

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Faux News

President Obama has shaved a few years off the sentence of a federal inmate who mistakenly received a longer prison term because of a typo -- a typo that would have meant three-and-a-half more years in prison if it hadn't been caught.

Ceasar Huerta Cantu, 46, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to marijuana and money laundering charges in Danville, Va., in 2006.

However, the judge who issued his sentence based the prison term on a mistake in his paperwork, which assigned Cantu a higher base offense level than was warranted. This mistake led Cantu to be sentenced to an extra three-and-a-half years in prison.

In 2012, Cantu filed a motion to change or vacate his sentence based on the error, but a judge ruled that Cantu had not caught the error in time to rectify it through judicial means.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/15/obama-reduces-sentence-federal-inmate-over-typo-in-paperwork/

[secondwind]

1. what an ugly side of America this is, that you have to spend more time in jail because of a TYPO

[groundloop]

2. Yep.... and how the hell is a normal citizen supposed to know how to catch that?

Probably his lawyer should have, but damn. What a fucked up system where a simple typing error can have such a huge negative impact on someone and a judge won't lift a finger to make things right.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Shouldn't the judge suffer when they make a mistake like that?

[madashelltoo]

4. What the system won't do

To keep its foot on the neck of its black and brown citizens has never been presented to them as an option. Fuckers.

[Downwinder]

5. That will save taxpayers about $255,000.

[Orrex]

6. The old Tuttle/Buttle snafu.

[MsLeopard]

7. Like Lily Ledbetter said

"They did it so long it became legal."

[Ash_F]

8. 15 years for MJ.

Get the fuck out.

[Cha]

9. Thank you, President Obama!