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The California Innocence Project (now IJC) began representing Larsen in 2002.In 2010, a judge ordered Larsen's release, finding that he was "actually innocent" of the crime and that Larsen's constitutional rights were violated.Despite the ruling, Larsen remained in prison for two more years while the state attorney general challenged the judge ...
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 ...
Pardons can reinstate some civic rights including the right to own a firearm or serve on a jury. In California, pardons have helped people avoid deportation and provided housing and job ...
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 ...
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 ...
Theoretically, a royal pardon can be granted for a general offense or accessory offenses alone; if it is granted for a general offense, the accessory ones it implies are also pardoned, with the exception of punishments involving political rights (i.e., removal of the right to run for a public office as a result of a sentence), which have to be ...
In a December interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," the president-elect said he'd be looking at individual Jan. 6 cases for pardons and would act "very quickly," possibly as soon as Inauguration Day.