{"id":1129,"date":"2013-12-08T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2016-01-17T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T16:30:32","slug":"clemency-now-rare-is-it-fear-of-blowback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Clemency now rare; is it fear of blowback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131207Pardons1.png\" alt=\"131207Pardons1\" width=\"577\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131207Pardons1.png 577w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131207Pardons1-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/>Dec. 8, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cObviously, there\u2019s a modern trend towards more limited use of executive clemency that extends beyond the current president. I speculate that the increased media scrutiny given to pardons and commutations has made presidents reluctant to exercise clemency&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe same trend&#8230; may be present in North Carolina as well&#8230;. Most of Governor Easley\u2019s pardons were in cases in which DNA evidence exonerated the defendant, while almost all of Governor Perdue\u2019s pardons concerned the racially tainted Wilmington 10 cases&#8230;. It is too early to tell how much, or how little, Governor McCrory will exercise executive clemency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu\/?p=4557\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Do Only Turkeys Get Pardons?<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sog.unc.edu\/user\/102\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jeff Welty<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0at the North Carolina Criminal Law blog (Dec. 5)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The chart above, compiled by Welty, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Government, depicts poignantly the odds faced by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1118\">Junior Chandler<\/a>\u00a0and others pursuing clemency from recent North Carolina governors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Since Jim Hunt left office in 2001, pardons have become historically scarce, paralleling the drop-off at the presidential level.\u00a0 But that smattering of clemency, as Welty points out, is most like to occur in December, under cover of the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 8, 2013 \u201cObviously, there\u2019s a modern trend towards more limited use of executive clemency that extends beyond the current president. I speculate that the increased media scrutiny given to pardons and commutations has made presidents reluctant to exercise clemency&#8230;.. \u201cThe same trend&#8230; may be present in North Carolina as well&#8230;. Most of Governor Easley\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}