Joshua Bevill made misrepresentations to three high-net-worth investors which resulted in a combined loss of $106,000. To inflate his sentence to 30 years the court sentenced him for crimes that he was never charged with, tried for, or convicted of. Worse still, the uncharged crimes allegedly occurred some 8 years before the conduct in Joshua's present case even began. Even worse still, the uncharged crimes had absolutely no relation to Joshua's crime of conviction.

In other words, Joshua was convicted of a relatively minor nonviolent white-collar offense, but he was sentenced for entirely separate uncharged, untried crimes that weren't even remotely related to his crime.

There's a legal loophole in federal court that allows courts to add years to a defendan's prison sentence for uncharged conduct that was related to the crime of conviction in that the defendant carried it out in the course of committing his crime of conviction. In Joshua's case, this legal loophole was exploited, which produced a punitive prison sentence that is grotesquely disproportionate to Joshua's crime: making misrepresentations to three high-net-worth investors, causing a combined loss of $106,000.

There is no parole in the federal system. Bevill has been in prison for more than a decade. And he is on a quest to garner support for a Clemency grant from the President of the U.S.