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That’s very different from what I’ve read.

Here’s a link that tells a very different story. Seems like someone with an agenda, or who can’t follow the facts, is distorting key aspects of what happened in an effort to smear - and I’m talking about whoever wrote that, not you.

Of note, the piece is generally anti-Huckabee, but shows the account given by that poster to be a total fabrication

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_huckabee_horton/2009/11/30/292351.html

Clemmons also had the backing of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Marion Humphrey, who urged the board to grant clemency. Humphrey later presided over Clemmons' 2004 wedding in his court chambers.

That is the entirety of what is said about Judge Humphrey in the article you linked to. It really doesn't say much at all. It is even a little confusing, at least to me, because I thought it was the governor who granted clemencies and the board (I assume they mean 'parole board') that grants paroles.

It doesn't contradict the account I posted above in logic since Judge Humphrey could have previously restructured Clemmons' sentence AND urged the board (or the Governor, whichever) to grant clemency. Those two things are hardly mutually exclusive. It has been said that Judge Humphrey has a reputation of being soft on criminals.

Clemmons was among 1,033 people who were pardoned or had their sentences reduced during Huckabee's 10 1/2 years as governor, a number that far surpasses that of his three predecessors combined. Bill Clinton, Frank White and Jim Guy Tucker granted 507 clemencies in the 17 1/2 years they served. Beebe, Huckabee's Democratic successor, has issued 273 commutations and pardons since taking office in January 2007 — all but one of them were pardons after the completion of the inmates' prison terms.

I think that's the most interesting part of the article you linked and it's not an opinion it is apparently an objective fact.

From my post #258:

"When Huckabee’s office received Clemmons clemency petition the ONLY person that was contacted and given a chance to object to clemency was Judge Humphrey. Although she had already reduced Clemmons sentence, she agreed with the clemency petition."

That agrees with the account you linked to. I don't see any conflict between the two reports.

Here is the link to Clemmons Clemency petition, parole hearing from 2001 and 2004. Open up the damned things and read them.

I fully expect an apology to me after you’ve read the original documents, which is where the information I provided came from.

It is customary when talking about another Freeper to ping that Freepers, which you did not do.

Here’s the link, I expect your apology shortly.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/11/30/2010388798.pdf