Little Apple Post

JUNCTION CITY – Samuel Pasqual Edmondson of Junction City is one of 22 inmates that President Obama reduced jail sentences for on Tuesday.

Edmondson was serving a lifetime sentence after being arrested in Sherman, Texas in 1996.

Edmondson original charges were for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

He was sent to prison on September 24, 1997.

Due to the President’s commutation grant, Edmondson’s prison sentence will expire on July 28, 2015.

The White House says that many of these individuals commuted would have already served their time and paid their debt to society had they been sentenced under current laws and policies.

Because many were convicted under now-outdated sentencing guidelines, the White House says they served years longer than individuals convicted of the same crimes today.

-The Associated Press contributed to this story