Prof. Murray on MPR About Commutation for Another Clemency Project Client

Professor JaneAnne Murray was interviewd on Tom Weber's morning news program on MPR regarding the Law School's fourth grant of commutation in President Obama's clemency initiative for low-level, non-violent offenders. On October 6, 2016, President Obama granted an additional 102 prisoner commutations, including 37-year-old Maria Marino, housed at Waseca, Minnesota, a client of Murray's Clemency Project at the School. Ms. Marine was sentenced in Iowa in 2008 to a twenty-year mandatory minimum sentence for her role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. Although Ms. Marino was found at sentencing to be the least culpable participant in the offense, she received the longest sentence of all charged defendants, solely because of the charging decisions the prosecutor made in her case. Her clemency petition was drafted by Molly Davy (class of 2016), under Murray's supervision, with the assistance of DC lawyer, Sylvia Royce.