UPDATE: Local 3 News is learning more about President Donald Trump's pardons of former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and one of his top aides Cade Cothren.

On Thursday, the president granted the two pardons.

Casada was facing three years in federal prison and Cothren was sentenced to 30 months.

A third person who was convicted in the federal case, for State Rep. Robin Smith of Hixson, is asking for the same outcome.

Smith took a plea deal and actually testified against Casada and Cothren.

She was sentenced to 8 months for part in the mailer fraud.

A White House official did not say if the president is considering a pardon for Smith, but they did tell Local 3 that the president believes Casada's and Cothren's cases were over prosecuted.

The official said that Casada and Cothr

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