Criminal Law
: Grits for BreakfastBegging your pardon: President's use of pardon power parsimonious compared to predecessors
By Gritsforbreakfast (index)
Mary Flood over at the Chronicle's Legal Trade blog has the raw list of presidential pardons and provides excellent information in the comments on the scope of pardon power.Hardly Reaganesque, President Bush has pardoned fewer than half as many people as either Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton, the last two-term presidents, did in their tenures, AP reports - 157 so far. The two cases from Texas pardoned were notable less for their favoritism than for their absolute commonness - a gun dealer from South Texas and a Denton septuagenarian convicted of wire fraud - and a distance of more than twenty years from conviction:Mariano Garza Caballero Brownsville, TexasOffense: Dealing in firearms without a federal firearms license; 18 U...continue to full post
Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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