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Jan 3, 2019 · Matthew Charles’ federal public defender filed a motion after the bill passed, claiming if he were to be sentenced now, he’d fall under a lesser guideline. On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s office filed a response.
Jun 1, 2018 · If you're wondering how to help Matthew Charles get his sentence commuted and attain his freedom once again, there are several ways you can contribute your time and resources.
- Sarah Friedmann
Last year, a Nashville man got an unlikely chance at redemption. Matthew Charles walked out of a federal prison a decade before the end of his term, after the Obama administration reduced the minimum sentence guidelines for dealing crack. He has spent the past year and a half rebuilding his life.
Jun 4, 2018 · A campaign seeking the release of a Nashville man from prison is flourishing on social media in the week following WPLN’s report on Matthew Charles’s case. Charles was released early in 2016, but a higher court later ruled his sentence reduction was a mistake and ordered him back behind bars.
Jun 13, 2018 · Hopwood is the lawyer representing Mathew Charles, a man who was released after 20 years in prison for a non-violent drug offense only to be told it was a mistake two years later and that he must return to finish out another 10 years.
- Jon Boldt
Feb 8, 2019 · In the spring of 2018, Professor Shon Hopwood was driving through Tennessee to visit a client when the president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) — a nonprofit working towards criminal justice reform — asked him to reach out to a man named Matthew Charles.
Jun 13, 2018 · The story of Matthew Charles, a Nashville man sent back to prison after being released for more than two years, has become something of a cause celeb, bringing pleas for his clemency all the way to the Oval Office.
