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08-31-2016, 04:12 AM
Deadhead imprisoned for selling LSD has life sentence cut short by Obama
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On Tuesday, the White House an**unced President Barack Obama has commuted sentences for 111 federal inmates (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commutations-6), including the life sentence handed down to Grateful Dead fan Timothy Tyler, whose case has been at the center of the argument over mandatory maximum sentencing for drug offenses.*
SEE ALSO: The profiles of the men and women whose sentences were commuted by Obama (http://mashable.com/2015/07/14/people-obama-commuted/)
A young man with a history of "psychosis and bipolar disorder" as well as abuse at the hands of his step-father as a child, according to a 2013 profile by Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/timothy-tylers-mandatory-minimum-sentence--life-in-prison-2013-7), Tyler had been convicted twice for drug offenses.*
It was his third conviction, for selling LSD and marijuana to a friend who was also a police informant in 1992, that earned him a life sentence. While his first two convictions only netted him probation each time, this conviction, the "third strike" led to his sentence in 1994.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/timothy-tyler-grateful-dead-life-sentence-obama-clemency-mandatory-minimum-reform/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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On Tuesday, the White House an**unced President Barack Obama has commuted sentences for 111 federal inmates (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commutations-6), including the life sentence handed down to Grateful Dead fan Timothy Tyler, whose case has been at the center of the argument over mandatory maximum sentencing for drug offenses.*
SEE ALSO: The profiles of the men and women whose sentences were commuted by Obama (http://mashable.com/2015/07/14/people-obama-commuted/)
A young man with a history of "psychosis and bipolar disorder" as well as abuse at the hands of his step-father as a child, according to a 2013 profile by Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/timothy-tylers-mandatory-minimum-sentence--life-in-prison-2013-7), Tyler had been convicted twice for drug offenses.*
It was his third conviction, for selling LSD and marijuana to a friend who was also a police informant in 1992, that earned him a life sentence. While his first two convictions only netted him probation each time, this conviction, the "third strike" led to his sentence in 1994.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/30/timothy-tyler-grateful-dead-life-sentence-obama-clemency-mandatory-minimum-reform/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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