From our archives:
Another newspaper has taken the time to review the actual facts of the Washington State tragedy, and determines that Huckabee's role in reducing Celmmon's sentence in Arkansas almost 10 years ago was a reasonable use of clemency.
According to today's Los Angeles Times editorial:
"...in Clemmons' case, he seems to have had legitimate grounds for concern about whether justice was being served. Clemmons was 16 years old when he committed the string of robberies and burglaries that resulted in [a] sentence [that] was astonishingly harsh for such a young perpetrator. A ... judge supported Clemmons' application for clemency a decade later. Huckabee made [him] eligible for parole by cutting his sentence in half, but the decision to set him free was made by the parole board. It's unreasonable to expect Huckabee to have anticipated the events in Parkland nine years later."
The truth comes out.
BSR
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