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exercise the President's power of executive clemency to commute Jonathan Pollard's sentence to time served.

Created by M.G. on September 26, 2011

Jonathan Pollard is currently serving his 24th year of a life sentence even though the median sentence for the offense he was indicted for is 2 to 4 years.
Jonathan Pollard never had a trial. He entered into a plea agreement, which spared both the U.S. and Israeli governments a long, difficult, expensive and potentially embarrassing trial. Jonathan Pollard fulfilled his end of the plea agreement, cooperating fully with the prosecution.
Jonathan Pollard was indicted on only one charge: one count of passing classified information to an ally without intent to harm the United States. There were no additional charges dropped by the plea agreement.
In spite of his plea agreement and in spite of his cooperation, Pollard received an unprecedented, grossly disproportionate life sentence.
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