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Marcus Page, who served in the U.S. Marines, was sentenced to three years of probation and 240 days in jail for the transport or sale of a controlled substance in San Diego County Superior Court ...
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
California has several post-conviction remedies that are sometimes called expungement. [11] For misdemeanor and felony crimes (not involving a sentence in state prison), a petition for expungement is filed in the court of conviction, seeking to have the conviction dismissed pursuant to Penal Code section 1203.4.
Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or to private civil lawsuits. [40] Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board. [1] The president's power to grant pardons explicitly does not apply "in cases of impeachment." This means that the ...
The pool of potential pardon candidates could be small and apply only to elderly LGTBQ people; California repealed a law that made consensual gay sex a crime in 1975. But activists say the program ...
Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles; Alaska Department of Corrections Parole Board [5] Arizona board abolished as of 1994, duties transferred to the Community Corrections Division of the Arizona Department of Corrections; Arkansas Parole Board [6] Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles [7] Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles
A smattering of controversial pardons has become common near the end of a term. Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich , whose ex-wife Denise had given $200,000 to the Democratic Party ...
Many U.S. states offer parole after a decade or more has passed, but in California, people sentenced to life imprisonment can normally apply for parole after seven years. [3] Florida leads the country with nearly one quarter of its LWOP prisoners, more than California, New York and Texas combined. [4]