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Spotlighting that the Clemmons case could make clemencies even rarer

By Douglas A. Berman

This new CNN piece, which is headlined "Seattle shootings may reduce pardons and commutations," discusses the likely impact of the the controversy over Mike Huckabee's clemency grant to cop killer Maurice Clemmons. Here are snippets: The ambush-style shootings of four police officers in Seattle allegedly by a suspect whose prison sentence had been commuted likely will affect the way states approach clemency, according to professors, criminologists and attorneys.  "For many governors, the quick response is, 'Huckabee is getting all this attention, so this is the last place I want to be'," said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based research group that studies sentencing trends. "They are going to be much more reluctant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).