Comments on: Cop Killer was pervert, “pardoned” by Huckabee in 2001 http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/12/02/cop-killer-was-pervert-pardoned-by-huckabee-in-2001/ News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: St. Lucie http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/12/02/cop-killer-was-pervert-pardoned-by-huckabee-in-2001/comment-page-1/#comment-3538 St. Lucie Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:14:22 +0000 http://www.thepostemail.com/?p=3605#comment-3538 There is a difference between a pardon and a communtation, Mr. Charlton. The sentencing of the young Clemmons in Arkansas, at the time his age was 16, seemed excessive for the crimes he was accused of. Gov. Huckabee did not pardon Clemmons, he commuted (reduced) the number of years Clemmons was to serve. The parole board released Clemmons, not Huckabee. The parole board voted 5-0 in favor. ----------------- <strong>Mr. Charlton replies:</strong> I never intended "pardoned" in the technical sense of the word, rather I intended it in the Christian sense...and the parole board could not have released him without that pardoning..but I put quotes around "pardoned" to clarify it....the common problem in America today is the insistence that common words only mean what lawyers say they mean...the English language is more descriptive than the law... There is a difference between a pardon and a communtation, Mr. Charlton. The sentencing of the young Clemmons in Arkansas, at the time his age was 16, seemed excessive for the crimes he was accused of. Gov. Huckabee did not pardon Clemmons, he commuted (reduced) the number of years Clemmons was to serve. The parole board released Clemmons, not Huckabee. The parole board voted 5-0 in favor.

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Mr. Charlton replies: I never intended “pardoned” in the technical sense of the word, rather I intended it in the Christian sense…and the parole board could not have released him without that pardoning..but I put quotes around “pardoned” to clarify it….the common problem in America today is the insistence that common words only mean what lawyers say they mean…the English language is more descriptive than the law…

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