Local Pardons From Presdident Biden

A record setting 1,500 people had their sentences for federal crimes commuted by President Joe Biden Thursday. Of those, two were convicted locally in Middle Tennessee and had been serving sentences for nonviolent drug crimes

Joseph M. Carter of Columbia pleaded guilty in 2011 to manufacturing MDMA. According to charging documents in federal court, between 2007 and 2010, Carter ran a clandestine laboratory in his Columbia home to synthesize MDMA, which he then planned to sell. Carter was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Court records show he asked for a sentence reduction in 2017, but it was denied.

Courtney Daily pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. She and a man had sold methamphetamine and weapons to a confidential informant in Pulaski in 2018, according to a criminal complaint in federal court. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison, four years of supervised release and a $200 special assessment.