Marvel’s chairman, a boxing great’s manager and President Trump came together to pardon a West Baltimore man

From his cell in a high-security federal prison in Colorado, Jawad Musa prayed five times a day that he would someday be able to see his family again. It was late December. A month earlier the 56-year-old West Baltimore man’s latest attempt to get released from a mandatory life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense had been rejected by a judge, just like all the others before it.