Associated PressOctober 6, 2022
2min0
‘No one should be in jail for just using or possessing marijuana.’
Tag: pardons
Associated PressOctober 6, 2022
Jacob OglesJune 23, 2022
5min0
'The general tone was, we may be prosecuted because we were defensive of the President’s positions.'
Associated PressJanuary 20, 2021
11min637
Others include Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Rick Renzi, Duke Cunningham, Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kelly HayesJanuary 11, 2021
4min1161
Since Wednesday, at least 90 people have been arrested for the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol that led to the death of five individuals.
Associated PressDecember 23, 2020
9min645
Congressman's theft, Blackwater massacre, among pardons.
Scott PowersJanuary 11, 2019
17min618
The Groveland Four were pardoned Friday by the Florida Executive Clemency Board. The unanimous action of the board, the Florida Cabinet, came Friday nearly 70 years after one of the most infamous cases of Jim Crow-era racial injustice began, and just three days after Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced Gov. Rick Scott, who had ignored calls for […]
Scott PowersDecember 21, 2018
9min567
Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis announced late Thursday he’s ready to take up the requested pardons for the Groveland Four immediately. Though he didn’t explicitly say he’s prepared to issue the pardons, DeSantis called the Groveland Four “victims” and expressed strong sympathy with the cause seeking belated justice for four young black men falsely accused of raping a […]
Scott PowersDecember 19, 20189min498
Pardons for the Groveland Four are heading for a hearing. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said Wednesday that he is sending a letter to the Florida Office of Executive Clemency invoking Rule 17, which allows any member of the Florida Cabinet to place a case “of exceptional merit” on the upcoming agenda of the […]
Scott PowersDecember 19, 2018
6min560
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio called for the Florida Cabinet to provide an action of posthumous justice for the Groveland Four during a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, declaring, “It is time to do the right thing for the Groveland Four!” Rubio’s comments brought to the U.S. Capitol the case of […]
Scott PowersDecember 3, 2018
10min509
Nineteen months after the Florida Legislature apologized on behalf of the state for injustice toward four black men falsely accused of rape in 1949 and urged Gov. Rick Scott and Florida’s cabinet to expedite pardons for them, there appear to be no such pardons in the works for the Groveland Four. But there still might […]