Biden’s ‘non-violent’ amnesty includes Citi’s son killer Adrian Peller
A 48-year-old Connecticut drug kingpin who killed a mother and her 8-year-old son to keep her from testifying against his brother has been granted clemency, former President Joe Biden said, adding that nearly 2,500 federal inmates have been pardoned. non-violent”.
Bridgeport drug dealer Adrian Peeler killed a woman named Karen Clark and her 8-year-old son weeks ago to testify against his brother, who shot Clark’s boyfriend in front of the child.
In the year In January 1999, the mother and daughter were ambushed and beaten while returning to their apartment. Police found the boy on the stairs with a bullet hole in the back of his head and Clark with a gunshot wound and an outstretched hand inches from the phone. to the City Post.
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Oswald Clark, left, Karen Clark’s brother, is helped to the side of her casket by funeral home worker Kevin Mitchell during a service at the Community Church of God in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Peller, the alleged shooter, faced the top charge of murder and spent 25 years in state prison for conspiracy to commit murder. He also took a plea deal on federal cocaine-trafficking charges. After serving his sentence in Connecticut, he was transferred to federal custody to serve more time.
Peeler’s most recent appeal was rejected in October last year, but the judge had previously persuaded him to serve 20 years in prison because of his good behavior and his youth for the murder. It was released in 2034.
Biden’s last-minute pardon surprised Clark’s family, too.
“I’m sick and tired, and I’m angry,” her brother Oswald Clark told The Associated Press. “It’s a shock.” My family is very worried about this. It looks like we’re hurting a lot again.”
BIDEN acquitted a radical left-wing assassin accused of murdering FBI agents in his final hours as president.
In this July 1, 2016, file photo, Russell Peller Jr. appears in Bridgeport Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn. He said, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for ordering the execution of an 8-year-old man. Witness and the child’s mother in 1999. His brother, Adrian Peeler, is the alleged shooter. (Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)
January 17, The White House boasted Biden has issued “more pardons and reforms than any other president in American history.”
“I will adjust the sentences of approximately 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses compared to the sentences they receive today under today’s laws, policies and practices,” he said.
Top Democrats also seemed surprised by the move.
“I think someone dropped the ball here to get this guy released,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said. City Post. “This was a horrific killing that changed our laws. It also shows that we need to look at how to reform the parole system.”
The killing prompted Connecticut officials to strengthen the state’s witness protection program, and Bridgeport officials named a park in Clark’s honor, the outlet said.
Biden’s full list of amnesty and exchange recipients revealed.
Peeler’s brother, Russell Peeler, was sentenced to death for ordering the murders, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole after Connecticut abolished the death penalty.
A separately released list of Biden’s “non-violent” pardon recipients included more violent criminals than Peller.
In the year Two Virginia men sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 1998 drug bust of a Sussex County police officer have been freed.
Fearon Claiborne and Terence Richardson, known as the “Waverly Two”, both admitted to playing a role in the death of Officer Alan Gibson, but were later found guilty of manslaughter at trial due to lack of evidence. But they were convicted of lesser charges and sentenced to life imprisonment.
President Joe Biden at the Department of Defense farewell ceremony on January 16, 2025 at the Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va. In his last days in office, he issued thousands of pardons. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Gibson, 25, stumbled upon the latter’s drug deal involving Waverly Richardson and Claiborne. According to authorities, the two then attacked and disarmed. He was later found with a bullet wound to the stomach, under his bullet proof umbrella.
Richardson pleaded guilty to state charges of involuntary manslaughter, while Claiborne pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact. He was later tried in federal court, where prosecutors failed to convince a jury that he was guilty of murder, but were convicted of drug trafficking.
Chrisna Gibson, the slain officer’s daughter, said in a statement released by Virginia Attorney General Jason Myares, “I am devastated by what happened.” “It breaks my heart to know that the people who killed my father will be released from prison and will be able to walk the streets freely.”
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Separated from his “non-violence” rhetoric, Biden ignored pleas from former FBI Director Christopher Wray to order the release of left-wing activist Leonard Peltier, who was found guilty in the South Dakota ambush that killed two FBI agents. In 1975
In his last term in office, he commuted Peltier’s life sentence and at the last minute granted parole to his family and associates, including his siblings. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members of the January 6 Committee. He had previously forgiven his son Hunter.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.