1st federal inmate to die of coronavirus wrote heartbreaking letter to judge.
His childhood was marked by tumult. Jones was initially raised by a great grandmother, but he spent much of his preteen years at a group home for children and shuffling among relatives and friends, according to his clemency petition and a government court filing quoting an interview with him. He was on and off the streets during his teenage years, the clemency petition says.
After discovering crack and powder cocaine inside the residence, they arrested Jones and his wife of two months, Sharon, court documents say. The government also used several other factors to enhance Jones' sentencing guidelines: his apartment's proximity to Temple College, his role as an"organizer" of criminal activity for enlisting Whitlock to deliver the drugs, his decision to fight the charges at trial and his offenses when he was 17 and 21.
In the years after his sentencing, she remained in close touch with her brother, who wrote frequently, she said, asking for updates on the youngest of his three sons, Kyrell. In January 2017, his lawyers received word from the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney: The petition was denied.
In his motion for a sentence reduction under the law, Jones' lawyers said shaving years off his prison term would"support the mandate from Congress and President Trump to reduce unnecessarily lengthy sentences for defendants like Mr. Jones."
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