However, in a letter to congressional legislators, Craig Cesal, a cannabis reform advocate who obtained clemency from then-President Donald Trump for a cannabis offense cautioned that the measure, as worded, would not have the intended effects.
Assistance may be out of grasp for a sizeable portion of federal convicts, according to the letter, due to the legislation providing the courts consequential acquiescence in deciding upon resentencing requests, but failing to determine cases where there are extenuating circumstances such as firearm possession or substantial amounts of money at the moment of arrest.
Cesal highlighted three particular provisions of the MORE Act that, depending on the verbiage, might keep individuals imprisoned for cannabis possession and related activity:
The measure would provide “discretion to the sentencing court as to whether the marijuana conviction or related conduct would be expunged.”
The measure would not “provide relief for additional counts of conviction inextricably relying on the criminality of the marijuana offense.”
And persons “whose offense involved five or more people, which is most marijuana offenses, would be specifically excepted from relief under the MORE Act.”
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