Denver Native (Carol)
04-15-2016, 02:57 PM
Katina Smith's life changed last July, when she received a letter from President Barack Obama stating she was one of 46 drug offenders whose sentences would be commuted.
Smith, sentenced in 2000 to 20 years for her involvement in a cocaine operation in Georgia, would finally get to see her son, Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas, play football in person.
Her dream became reality late last season when she sat in a suite at Sports Authority Field to see Thomas play in the Broncos' divisional playoff game against the Steelers. Her hope is Minnie Pearl Thomas, Demaryius' grandmother, will get to do the same.
Smith recently posted a petition on Change.org to urge President Obama to commute the life sentence handed to Minnie Pearl Thomas, 60, a three-time drug offender and the main player in the Georgia drug ring. Labeled a career offender, Minnie Pearl Thomas still is serving time at a federal corrections institute in Tallahasee, Fla., and did not qualify for the sentence reduction Smith received in 2015.
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_29771535/demaryius-thomas-mother-petitions-early-prison-release-his-grandmother
Smith, sentenced in 2000 to 20 years for her involvement in a cocaine operation in Georgia, would finally get to see her son, Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas, play football in person.
Her dream became reality late last season when she sat in a suite at Sports Authority Field to see Thomas play in the Broncos' divisional playoff game against the Steelers. Her hope is Minnie Pearl Thomas, Demaryius' grandmother, will get to do the same.
Smith recently posted a petition on Change.org to urge President Obama to commute the life sentence handed to Minnie Pearl Thomas, 60, a three-time drug offender and the main player in the Georgia drug ring. Labeled a career offender, Minnie Pearl Thomas still is serving time at a federal corrections institute in Tallahasee, Fla., and did not qualify for the sentence reduction Smith received in 2015.
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_29771535/demaryius-thomas-mother-petitions-early-prison-release-his-grandmother