Please sign this Petition requesting for the U.S. Pardon Attorney Office to grant Clemency for my non-violent drug charges. Furthermore, my harsh sentence is exacerbated by numerous procedural violations that prevented me from challenging the legality of my detention. I have served over eleven years in federal prison and counting. 

 28 years for Non-violent 2014 Drug Charge- Support Re-Sentencing-

           My name is Derrick 'Sonny' Wilson. I am seeking clemency and/or resentencing on federal non-violent drug charges - currently incarcerated in federal prison. In 2014, after refusing to take a plea deal, I was forced to choose between unprepared counsel and self-representation at trial. Based on my extensive study of the law and my relentless immersion into the facts of the case - and the underlying fabricated evidence, I chose to represent myself. During trial, I was subjected to many injustices and flippant disrespect as a pro se litigant. Ultimately, I was sentenced to 28-years. The transcript of my sentencing statement tells it all and is posted on my website manvsthemachine (.com)

            Moving forward, I am now a college student and an author. I proudly attend Morehouse College while incarcerated at FCI Atlanta. Before arriving in Atlanta last year from Yazoo, Mississippi, I turned countless hours of solitude into a soon to be published 500-page memoir, ‘A Modern-Day Lynching’. This powerful and eye-opening book recounts my struggles within the legal system, beginning with my teenage years, after winning a lawsuit against 5 detectives and the Syracuse, NY police department, after an unlawful search and seizure. 

           A retaliatory forever target was placed on my back by the defendant detectives in that lawsuit. I was young and didn’t realize the lifelong consequences of winning.  Transcripts and case documents can be viewed on the website my advocates built at manvsthemachine (.com)

          That target was hit hard when I was arrested at 20 (twenty) years old on my first (fabricated) non-violent drug charge and received a 21-years to life sentence. It was then, that I began studying law morning, noon and night. Eventually, the new Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms went into effect. I was released after 10 years, causing the defamed, defeated detectives from the civil suit to retaliate in high gear. 

          Four years later, that target metastasized into my current federal non-violent drug conviction. The documentary evidence of how government agencies planted drugs and then fabricated phone records to cover it up, are on the website in my 'Writ of Certiorari to the American People', (Appendices 1-8, hyperlinks). View on manvsthemachine (.com) 

         I had a wake-up call after losing my 2016 federal trial (while without access to an attorney) and so I spent the following years transforming myself from a strong jailhouse lawyer, into a surprisingly formidable jailhouse lawyer, continuing my pro se advocacy for justice in my case. In addition to filing all subsequent motions over the last eleven years in my federal case, I’ve also extended my legal expertise by helping many other incarcerated men on their cases. Some have been released. 

            In 2017, while serving my 28-year federal sentence, I was in trial again, stemming from another targeted attempt in a separate but coextensive state-related matter. And again, due to incompetent public defenders, I had to represent myself as a pro se defendant. However, this time, my strive for justice provided vindication, winning an acquittal against the same detectives who painted that target on my back. The same detectives who arrested me on false charges when I was 20.  The same detectives who fabricated evidence in my federal trial. The same detectives who have gone to great lengths to make sure I spend the rest of my life in prison in retaliation for winning the lawsuit against them as a teenager. Transcripts, documents and a media video interview from the trials can be viewed at manvsthemachine (.com) 

           Despite documented fabrication of evidence in my federal trial by government officials, the court repeatedly denied my multiple requests for an evidentiary hearing; thus, preventing me from challenging the legality of my arrest and conviction (substantive and procedural due process violations). 

         Having been denied clemency once under the Biden administration on January 20, 2025, I am currently seeking relief again under the Trump administration (2nd Clemency Case Number: C320931, pending)  

         Under many current re-sentencing reforms, myself, along with many, many others, would qualify for a lesser sentence today.  

       Please consider my petition! Thank you for taking the time to read this petition.
        Your signature matters!  Not only as a voice for myself, but for all the non-violent, over-sentenced incarcerated.

                                    With Fortitude,
                                    Derrick Wilson aka Sonny Cochran

ManVsTheMachine is my website - the link won't work from this petition but if you copy and paste it and then add the dotcom (.com), it will open.  
Stay Blessed & Guided - 
I humbly thank you for your advocacy-
Be safe