I filed my Clemency/Pardon petition, had a hearing before the Prisoner Review Board, now what?
Here is what we tell our clients after we’ve filed their pardon aka petition for clemency and appeared before the Board for a hearing: PROCESS: Pardon filing –> Pardon hearing before Prisoner Review Board –> Board votes on whether they think Governor should/should not grant your pardon –> Regardless of their non-binding opinion/vote, Board must send your pardon to Governor –> Pardon sits on Governor’s desk until he [...]
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Think your DISMISSED arrest can’t come back to haunt your job? Think again…enter Chicago Tea Party Director Stevan Stevlic
Chicago Tea Party Director Stevan Stevlic is one of the Chicago’s leading Tea Partiers…and this weekend’s news of his June 2010 arrest proves that, regardless of your political affiliation, a dismissed arrest can always come back to bite you…unless you have it expunged or sealed. Stevlic was arrested by the Chicago Police on June 25, 2010, in the 1600 block of South Kilbourn for misdemeanor solicitation [...]
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September 2, 2011: Illinois Governor Quinn grants 74 more clemencies/pardons
Governor Quinn (D-IL) has established a pattern of granting pardons around the holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…and now, Labor Day. On Friday, September 2, 2011, just as we started the long weekend in celebration of Labor Day, Governor Quinn granted 74 pardons. (He also denied 99 requests.) According to leading pardon authority Professor P. S. Ruckman, Jr. of www.pardonpower.com, “Quinn has acted on a total of 1,529 [...]
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From my client’s mother: our fight for a commutation of sentence from Governor Quinn
From a Mother’s Heart While on vacation in May of 2007, I received a phone call from my youngest daughter. I was excited to hear from her only to find she was calling with bad news. She was calling to let me know my oldest daughter was arrested for Criminal Drug Conspiracy. I did not know what to do; I was traveling out of state [...]
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