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Should Prez Bush (or would a Prez Clinton) consider a pardon for Gov Spitzer?

By Douglas A. Berman

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Over at Pardon Power, P.S. Ruckman already has this entertaining post talking about Governor Eliot Spitzer and clemency issues. Here is a snippet:Should Gov. Spitzer be convicted (of anything), he stands a much-better-than-average chance of also benefiting from a presidential pardon ? the irony being that, as governor, he has been notoriously stingy with the clemency power. Well, actually, there is another, even greater irony: Spitzer is on record as supporting a presidential pardon for long-since deceased boxing legend Jack Johnson, who was also convicted for ... violating the Mann Act! Kinda has that feel of Bill Clinton pardoning all of those individuals for lying under oath and making false statements to government agents, doesn't it? Why might Spitzer be pardoned? Because 1) former governors in legal trouble have a pretty darn good record for such and 2) it appears likely to many that the next president will be a fellow Democrat...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).