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'Spoonful of cocaine': Ex-clemency board member recommends inmate be free | Banfield
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8:50Now PlayingNikki Fried, who served as Florida's commissioner of agriculture from 2019 to 2023 and sat on the state’s four-person executive clemency board, is recommending clemency for Michael Edwards. Edwards was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1993 for selling a spoonful of cocaine to an ex-girlfriend who was working as a police informant and later admitted to lying. Edwards rejected plea deals of nine and 15 years, believing he would be acquitted, but was convicted and received the maximum sentence under Florida's "three strikes" law. Now 31 years into his sentence, Edwards has been a model prisoner but isn’t eligible for release until 2037. His family has long petitioned for clemency, but Gov. Ron DeSantis recently declined to act, saying, “I’m not inclined at this time."
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