http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/06/weldon-angelos-is-free-thanks-to-a-prose

Weldon Angelos Is Free, Thanks to a Prosecutor, Not a President
The young father of three got 55 years for three small-time pot sales.

Jacob Sullum|Jun. 6, 2016 8:52 am


Weldon Angelos, the Utah record producer who received a mandatory minimum sentence of 55 years for three pot deals that totaled a pound and a half, was quietly freed last week, 35 years before his estimated release date. Angelos was not one of the 42 federal prisoners whose sentences President Obama commuted on Friday, although his clemency petition had attracted support from many prominent legal, political, and literary figures, including the judge who sentenced him. Instead he is a free man thanks to a federal prosecutor who apparently had second thoughts about his office's decision to punish Angelos for rejecting a plea deal by stacking charges in a way that threatened to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

"After three and half years of inaction on Weldon's clemency petition, he is free because of the fair and good action of a prosecutor," Mark W. Osler, Angelos' lawyer, told The Washington Post. "He returns to citizenship because of the actions of one individual—just not the individual I was expecting. Weldon's freedom is a wonderful thing but remains just one bright spot among many continuing tragedies."

What? A prosecutor with a conscious, no way.

For those drawing a judgmental distinction between pardons and commuted sentences:

Pardons erase the conviction. Commutation leaves the conviction for the crime in place.

Therefore, if you are concerned about criminals getting away with things, you will want to go after/complain about the presidents who PARDON people.

Yea we know...no need for a "teachable moment".....

Well, pardon me.

Wrong. Pardons don't erase conviction.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions

10. Effect of a pardon

While a presidential pardon will restore various rights lost as a result of the pardoned offense and should lessen to some extent the stigma arising from a conviction, it will not erase or expunge the record of your conviction. Therefore, even if you are granted a pardon, you must still disclose your conviction on any form where such information is required, although you may also disclose the fact that you received a pardon. In addition, most civil disabilities attendant upon a federal felony conviction, such as loss of the right to vote and hold state public office, are imposed by state rather than federal law, and also may be removed by state action.

yep,sure a rare Specimen in that "Profession"!