Chris Young: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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hris Young’s sentence of life without parole for a non-violent drug conviction is being challenged by Kim Kardashian. Kardashian, who helped to get Alice Johnson’s 1996’s life in prison conviction for a similar arrest overturned in June 2018, has said she has now shifted her attention to Young’s case. Young, 30, is serving life without parole in Lexington, Kentucky. Kardashian made international headlines when she successfully put pressure on President Donald Trump to commute Johnson’s life without parole sentence. On September 5, a government official confirmed to Bloomberg’s Justin Sink that Kim Kardashian was at the White House in the wake of the news that she had taken up Young’s case.
Kardashian will officially announce her involvement in the case in an interview on Jason’s Flom’s Wrongful Conviction podcast. According to Page Six, Kardashian says in the interview, “Yesterday, I had a call with a gentleman that’s in prison for a drug case – got life. It’s so unfair. He’s 30 years old. He’s been in for almost 10 years. I was on the phone with the judge that sentenced him to life, who resigned because he had never been on the side of having to do something so unfair, and now he is fighting [alongside] us to get [Young] out.” Kardashian goes on to say that she is in regular contact with the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Kardashian described Kushner as being “passionate” about sentencing laws.
