From marijuana to alligator hides, Obama pardons 8

This type of news is not usually widely reported. It is good to know that the President is trying to tip the scales of justice back in the right direction. I am sure the people or in some cases the families, are grateful to the President.

President Barack Obama on Friday pardoned eight people convicted of crimes ranging from conspiring to import marijuana to selling alligator hides.

The action marked the second set of pardons Obama has granted since becoming president. The first pardons, last December, went to nine people whose crimes included possessing drugs, counterfeiting and mutilating coins.

Like the earlier pardons, the latest did not involve anyone well-known. The cases date back as far as 1975, when Randy Eugene Dyer of Burien, Wash., was sentenced to serve five years in prison in the conspiracy to import marijuana and two related crimes.

Another pardon recipient was Bobby Gerald Wilson of Summerton, S.C., sentenced in 1985 to 3 ½ months in prison for aiding and abetting the possession and sale of illegal American alligator hides.

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