The move comes as pardon recommendations have come to a virtual standstill in recent years, according to a Hearst review.
on Floyd and two dozen others. And endorsements in Texas have since come to a virtual standstill, according to documents the Houston Chronicle obtained from the board. It did not endorse a single new pardon in 2022 and has only proposed two this year.
“I’m curious what brought it on, to say the least,” said Jernigan, a former sheriff of Val Verde County. “Maybe there’s a good reason, but I don’t know what it is.”to “expedite its review” of Perry’s case – even though Perry had not yet applied for a pardon. Abbott also appeared to tell the members what their decision should be, writing, “I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk.
“Instead of commanding them like his puppets, he now uses them as his foil to deflect the shitstorm that envelopes him,” Cohen said, calling it “craven behavior.”The Board of Pardons and Paroles has existed for more than a century, ever since then-Gov. Miriam Ferguson was widely rumored to have sold thousands of pardons in exchange for cash. Today, pardons are so difficult to get that some lawyers consider it malpractice to charge clients for the service of applying for one.
Mathis didn’t get her hopes up. “I knew the board was made up of Greg Abbott’s appointees, and I figured that they wouldn’t want him to have to deal with it,” she said. Still, she reasoned, it could happen; Abbott had attended Floyd’s funeral, after all.at first voted unanimously to recommend a pardon for all three applicants. By then, Oliver had a new job at a different school, but she wasn’t allowed to work alone with children; she hoped this would change things.
that year, all related to decades-old nonviolent convictions. His spokeswoman, Eze, said at the time that he “did not have the opportunity to consider” Floyd’s because the board had withdrawn its endorsement. But the applications from Mitchell and Mathis were denied on second review. Mathis had no idea what to make of the reversal.
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