Douglass Mackey, a prominent social media influencer also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” has been sentenced to 7 months in prison for conspiring to deceive potential voters during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
James Gordon Meek, a former investigative journalist with ABC News, has been sentenced to only six years in prison in a child pornography case, with a maximum penalty of 20 years or more.
California's legislature advanced Senate Bill 94 last week, which would allow California prison inmates serving a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) to petition for re-sentencing if the offense occurred before June 5, 1990, and they have completed at least 25 years of their sentence.