Felony Friday 061 - Israel Torres Shares his Story: From Life Sentence to Presidential Commutation

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On today’s episode of Felony Friday Israel Torres joins the show to share what it was like to have his life sentence commuted by President Obama. Israel was sentenced to life in prison at the age of twenty-one for a nonviolent drug offense. He thought he would be serving out his life sentence until President Obama commuted his sentence and granted Israel his freedom. Now that Israel has rejoined society he is contributing value and proving every day that non-violent drug offenders can do great things once given a chance to prove their worth on the outside. A few months ago Israel appeared Michael Santos’ Earning Freedom Podcast. Michael is a friend of the Lions of Liberty Podcast and was gracious enough to connect us with Israel to set up this interview today. This episode is a little longer than most. Make sure to listen to the entire show, because at the end host [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Welcome to Felity Friday, a presentation of the Lions of Liberty podcast. Here is your host, John Otermat.
0:46.0	Felons, friends, and freedom lovers, welcome. This is Felony Friday on the Lions of Liberty
0:52.9	podcast. Here on felony Friday, I Lions of Liberty podcast.
1:00.1	Here on felony Friday, I focus each and every week on exposing injustice in the broken criminal justice system. Now, the criminal justice system is my passion, and it is so rewarding
1:05.7	to be able to bring on a guest to speak with a guest who has overcome incredible injustice
1:10.8	and come out on the other side
1:12.2	to find success. And today on Faluny Friday, I have just that opportunity. I'll be speaking with
1:18.1	Israel Torres. Israel was sentenced to life in prison, but was granted clemency by President
1:24.2	Obama, and now he's out and he's living a successful life.
1:28.6	Now, before I get to my interview with Israel, I want to remind you guys that there are two
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