The order mandates Marcus Taylor to be released from prison in five days after serving twice the maximum state-mandated term for the crime he pled guilty to in 2015.

The first clemency issued by Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves occurred this week for a man who was found to have been improperly convicted of a drug related crime.

Marcus Taylor began serving a 15-year sentence in June 2015 after he entered a guilty plea on charges for conspiracy to sell a Schedule III controlled substance.

While he was sentenced to 15 years, every member of the Mississippi Court of Appeals, which consists of 10 judges, determined the sentence was in excess of the state mandated maximum of five years in May of this year.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals stated that “…it is apparent that Taylor’s fifteen-ye

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