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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Veterans Day pardoned five former members of the military and is seeking one posthumous clemency grant for another for convictions that include robbery, drug dealing and grand ...
Gov. Newsom added 10 holiday acts of clemency to his total of 140 pardons, 123 commutations and 35 reprieves while in office.
The governor launched the LGBTQ California Clemency Initiative in February 2020 and vowed to eradicate "historic homophobia” in the criminal justice system by offering pardons to people ...
Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or to private civil lawsuits. [40] Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board. [1] The president's power to grant pardons explicitly does not apply "in cases of impeachment." This means that the ...
Ernest C. Brace – pardoned of his 1961 court-martial from the United States Marine Corps in light of his almost eight years as a POW in Vietnam. [28] Iva Toguri D'Aquino, aka – "Tokyo Rose" – convicted of treason in 1949, paroled in 1956. She was pardoned on January 19, 1977, Ford's last day in office.
Pardon requests from people facing deportation are given expedited review by the state Board of Parole Hearings, per a 2018 California law. [125] In his first acts of clemency as governor, Newsom pardoned seven formerly incarcerated people in May 2019, including two Cambodian refugees facing deportation. [126]
People who received an official pardon from a governor of a state of the United States, or from a body that acts on behalf of the executive branch in granting pardons, such as a state parole board. Pages in category "Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons"
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