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Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Trump Appoints ‘Pardon Czar’ at Black History Month Event by James Mills by James Mills President Donald J. Trump recently announced the appointment of Alice Johnson, a formerly incarcerated woman whose sentence he had commuted, as his senior adviser on pardons, a role he dubbed “pardon czar.” The announcement was …
Article • September 1, 2024 • from CLN September, 2024
Maryland Governor Pardons Thousands of Low-Level Marijuana Convictions, Seeking to Right Historical Wrongs by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 17, 2024, Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed an executive order in Annapolis to issue more than 175,000 pardons for low-level marijuana convictions, seeking to rectify “historical wrongs” …
Sixth Circuit Announces Full, Unconditional Pardon, Regardless of Issue of Innocence, Meets Heck Requirement of Invalidated Conviction; § 1983 Claims May Be Pursued by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), does not bar …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
2022 CLEMENCY ADVOCACY GUIDE ADVOCACY GUIDE INTRODUCTION This guide is a resource for individuals who have applied for clemency from the Governor of California and ask the question, “What do I do now?” Here, you will find information and guidance on building an advocacy campaign in support of your clemency …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Annual Report of Trends in Clemency -2022 The Redemption Campaign Annual Report of Trends in Clemency 2022 Overview The criminal legal landscape is, by design, enormously complex and notoriously difficult to change. While we have a number of tools available to correct the failed policies of the past, one in …
Martinsville Seven Pardoned 70 Years After Execution by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) signed posthumous pardons for seven Black men denied due process in a criminal case following a rape allegation involving a white woman in Martinsville, Virginia, in 1949. On January 8, 1949, 32-year-old …
Article • April 11, 2022
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Pennsylvania Clearing the Way for More Clemencies and Commutations in 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott April is Second Chance Month for those whose lives have been changed by an encounter with the criminal justice system in the United States. The state of Pennsylvania, under the leadership …
Article • March 17, 2022
North Carolina Governor Grants Clemency to 3 People Convicted as Juveniles by A March 10, 2022, press release from North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s office stated the governor has commuted the sentences of three people convicted of crimes as juveniles. The commutations — the first of their kind — were …
Article • August 16, 2021
Clemency Woefully Inadequate Remedy for Injustice by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When the justice system fails a criminal defendant, the last hope is clemency. The rash of 70 pardons and commutations in the waning days of the Trump presidency show that the clemency process is an inadequate alternative …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
The People Have Spoken: Clemency Appointments Should Follow the Will of the People by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Executive Clemency, the process of granting a modified or revised prison sentence at the behest of the Office of the President of the United States, continues to be a …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Justice Policy Center - How Governors Can Use Categorical Clemency as a Corrective Tool 2020 JUSTICE POLICY CENTER RE S E AR CH RE P O R T How Governors Can Use Categorical Clemency as a Corrective Tool Lessons from the States Leah Sakala Roderick Taylor Colette Marcellin November 2020 …
Collateral Consequences Resource Center - Pathways to Reintegration Criminal Record Reforms in 2019 Pathways to Reintegration: Criminal Record Reforms in 2019 February 2020 s COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES RESOURCE CENTER The Collateral Consequences Resource Center is a non-profit organization established in 2014 to promote public engagement on the myriad issues raised by …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
U.S. District Court Grants Savings Clause Petition, Vacates Mandatory Life Sentence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell After the case had been sitting in the courts for seven years, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina granted relief under the “savings clause” of 28 U.S.C. § …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Record Number of Exonerations Prompts Michigan AG to Create Conviction Integrity Unit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Few nightmares can equate with being an innocent person wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Since innocence projects began appearing in the 1990s, dozens of prisoners in Michigan have been exonerated. In 2017 a …
Police, Prosecutor Misconduct Continues Unabated as Evidenced by Record Number of Exonerations in 2018 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to an analysis of the National Registry of Exonerations performed by the Death Penalty Information Center, a record 151 exonerations were reported in 2018. Victims of wrongful homicide convictions …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
In a Rare Move, California Court of Appeal Discharges Prisoner from All Forms of Custody, Including Parole, After Finding Time Served in Prison Grossly Disproportionate to His Offense by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, discharged William E. Palmer II from all …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Prosecutorial Power Used Too Often to Stop Prisoners From Getting Second Chance at Life by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Alexander Hamilton once described the reasons for the existence of clemency as those of humanity and good policy. Both clemency and parole reflect a commitment to the ancient value of …
Publication • 2019
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Guide to California Pardons, May 2019 -ASIAN AM RICANS ADVANCING JUSTlC~ .. ASIAN LAW CAUCUS GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA PARDONS ... , .. • MAY 2019 I I I ... r . • ..-. " I :... J'> ~ ~> ~ ADVANCtlNG JUSTICE ASIAN LAW CAUCUS Table of …
Publication • 2019
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
California Coalition for Women Prisoners-Commutation Application Guide, June 2019 California Coalition for Women Prisoners 4400 Market Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Phone: (415) 255-7036 x4 Fax: (415) 552-3150 Email: info@womenprisoners.org Commutation Application Guide This document is intended to support incarcerated people and advocates in submitting commutation applications to Governor Newsom of …
Article • January 19, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
‘Innocent Man Almost Executed’ Freed After Decade on Death Row by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin of Altamante Springs, Florida, was recently exonerated and freed after spending 14 years in prison, including 10 on death row, for double murder. “An innocent man was almost executed for a crime …
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