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08-05-2016, 08:14 PM
Obama has **w commuted the drug sentences of this NFL star's mother and grandmother
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President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates this week — including the grandmother of Super Bowl champion Demaryius Thomas.*
Remarkably, it's **t the first time Obama has commuted the sentence of a relative of Thomas. Last summer, the president let Thomas' mother out of prison.*
SEE ALSO: NFL star Patrick Willis is thriving in retirement as a Silicon Valley tech worker (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/patrick-willis-retirement-tech-open-source/)
We'll start with Thomas' mother, Katina Smith. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2000 for helping run a cocaine ring in Georgia, according to The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/03/demaryius-thomas-grandmother-minnie-pearl-thomas-sentence-commuted/). Thomas was just a boy then. His mother was in prison as he became a high school star, then a college star, then a three-time NFL Pro Bowler.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/demaryius-thomas-mother-grandmother-prison-obama/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates this week — including the grandmother of Super Bowl champion Demaryius Thomas.*
Remarkably, it's **t the first time Obama has commuted the sentence of a relative of Thomas. Last summer, the president let Thomas' mother out of prison.*
SEE ALSO: NFL star Patrick Willis is thriving in retirement as a Silicon Valley tech worker (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/patrick-willis-retirement-tech-open-source/)
We'll start with Thomas' mother, Katina Smith. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2000 for helping run a cocaine ring in Georgia, according to The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/03/demaryius-thomas-grandmother-minnie-pearl-thomas-sentence-commuted/). Thomas was just a boy then. His mother was in prison as he became a high school star, then a college star, then a three-time NFL Pro Bowler.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/demaryius-thomas-mother-grandmother-prison-obama/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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