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Posted on 12/24/2015 12:27:55 PM PST by Steelfish
Gov. Jerry Brown Pardons Robert Downey Jr. For 1990s Drug Offenses
Actor Robert Downey Jr., who spent time behind bars in the late 1990s on drug convictions, received a Christmas Eve pardon from Gov. Jerry Brown, effectively scrubbing his criminal record clean.
The actor was one of 91 people to whom the governor granted clemency for past crimes, most of them minor drug offenses that are no longer felonies under California law, as well as robbery and burglary. It has become an annual Christmas Eve tradition: official proclamations for men and women who previously served time for mostly nonviolent crimes.
Downey had a long history of problems with drugs and the law, including repeated arrests in 1996. In total, the actor served two years, eight months, and in 2002 he completed his parole.
Downey, perhaps best known for his role as Iron Man in a series of Marvel films, obtained an order on Oct. 20 from a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, finding that he has since "lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character, and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
La La land.
I'll let this one slide.
Hey Robert ...... run down(ey) and buy a gun for christmas ........
Does that clear Iron Man to be officially accepted as a part of the U.S. Military as either personnel or materiel?
I suspect Robert Downey Jr is more of a conservative than he would prefer to claim but much less liberal than he is painted on these pages.
Thanks for that link, the video is great. I love Iron Man, love Tony Stark, really love Robert Downey Jr. I’m happy to hear he got pardoned, he has really, really turned his life around.
Never go full retard.
Good for you Robert. I’m not really concerned about him.
Now if this was somebody like Drew Carey (I know he’s Canadian) or Crazy Randy Quaid- Seven years paranoid and counting, or former NFL Ray Rice (knocked wife out in elevator), I would be concerned.
So will I.
In Kalifornia that doesn't get him much.
Drew Carey is a US Msrine
Pardon me. I meant Jim Carrey, not Drew.
Here’s a Downey quote
I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since. [Downey in The New York Times in 2008, on why some of his political opinions now lean more conservative than they used to]
OK. Easy mistake to make. Jim Carrey is a tool.
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Sort of surprising.
Downey and Brown are not in any way friends.
Good. It was great to see him turn his life around and become a star once again.
That dude was messed up back in the 90’s.
He is walking proof that you don’t have to continue being a degenerate.
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