WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says a retired Tampa police officer's praiseworthy career doesn't offset the severity of the charge that he shot and killed another man after an argument at a movie theater over texting. Curtis Reeves, 71, is charged with...
Month: January 2014
Florida man among 8 whose harsh crack cocaine sentences commuted by Obama
At just 25 years old, Ricky Eugene Patterson’s future seemed finished when he was imprisoned for life in 1995 for planning to peddle a handful of crack-cocaine rocks. Last month, just days before Christmas, President Barack Obama gave the Fort Pierce man a new,...
