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A profile of Prez pardons as we enter clemency season

By Douglas A. Berman

Former pardon attorney Margaret Colgate Love sent me a terrific little document providing a "a very quick and dirty profile of the 157 individuals who have been pardoned by President Bush to date, as well as the five individuals whose sentences have been commuted."  The full document can be downloaded below, and here are a few snippets: I found that of the 157 full pardons issued by President Bush to date, almost 2/3 went to people whose convictions had occurred more than 20 years before they were pardoned. Only a handful of pardons went to people convicted less than ten years before the pardon. Every single pardon recipient had fully served their sentence years before they were pardoned. Twenty-one of the pardon grants went to people convicted more than 35 years before, and eight of those pardoned were convicted in the 1940s and 50s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 26, 2008 (boomark / email).