Trump Commutes Sentences of Former Arkansas Senator Hutchinson and Sotelo Brothers Serving Life for Drug Trafficking

Trump commuted the sentences of former Arkansas Republican state senator Jeremy Hutchinson and brothers Edward and Joe Angelo Sotelo on May 29, 2025. Hutchinson received 50 months for bribery and tax fraud after accepting lobbyist payments as a state legislator; the Sotelos had served 30 years of life sentences since their 1995 Texas drug trafficking convictions. The commutations simultaneously addressed a recently convicted politician and decades-old mandatory minimum drug sentences.