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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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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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We are almost finished with our pardon petitions for the January 2011 deadline! If you aren’t sure what a pardon actually looks like, here is a picture. This is just one client’s petition. We have 8 copies that are ready to be bound at the printer, then they’ll be shipped to the Illiniois Prisoner Review Board in Springfield. The judge and prosecutor also get a copy. [...]

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