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Today, Florida Takes A Huge Step Backward

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Today Florida's Executive Clemency Board will vote to repeal former Governor Crist's granting of automatic restoration of civil rights to convicted felons. Only Kentucky and Virginia require applications for restoration of civil rights.It's a done deal, although the general public doesn't realize it yet. Most don't care, because they think it doesn't affect their innocent selves.The leader of the repeal is our new attorney general Pam Bondi. You may have seen her on TV. She's a former career prosecutor who is very pretty and was often asked to appear on talking head TV shows to trumpet the guilt of suspects, like the Duke rape suspects. Remember them?I met her once, about a decade ago when she walked into a courtroom for the specific purpose of objecting to the sealing of a record for my first time offender client whose case was dismissed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).