Posted on 03/29/2011 5:11:51 AM PDT by Charlemagne on the Fox
Imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan is known around the world for clearing Illinois’ Death Row in 2003 and imposing a moratorium on the death penalty.
But the governor who pardoned more than 200 people admitted in a recently released court deposition that he “didn’t understand” the difference between two major types of pardons and that he was declaring a Chicago inmate innocent by the way he pardoned him . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Seriously. Why Am I not surprised?
So the Illinois A.G. didn’t advise the gov on pardons?
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