Doors' Jim Morrison to get pardoned in Florida

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Doors singer Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction in Florida after Gov. Charlie Crist got a commitment for enough votes from other members of the state's Board of Executive Clemency to approve it.

Morrison was appealing the conviction when he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971. The meeting Thursday comes a day after the singer would have turned 67.

Crist can't issue a pardon on his own. He and the three-member Cabinet serve as the Clemency Board. Approval is required by the governor and at least two other members.

The did-he-or-didn't-he debate over what happened at the Miami concert was revived by Crist's interest in the case. The surviving band members say a drunken Morrison teased the crowd, but never exposed himself.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_jim_morrison_pardon

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[RKP5637]

1. Recommend!!! n/t

[ixion]

2. *sigh* a waste of resources simply for show

how very lame.

[Turbineguy]

3. I imagine he'll be delighted!

Oh wait... never mind.

[No Elephants]

4. Oh, for pity's sake. How much did this cost Floridians?

Got priorities, Charlie?


And thanks for Rubin.

[RSillsbee]

5. I remember in 1976

I saw on the news that George Washington had been promoted to 5 star general and that Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis had been restored to full citizenship.

All I could think to say was "Why?"

[Art_from_Ark]

8. I think Washington was promoted to 6-star general

so that he would always be above all the other generals.

[RSillsbee]

9. No such rank exists NT

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Wanna bet?

"The impact that Washington had on the new nation led to his becoming known as the "Father of his Country." The nation has continued to reflect upon his service. So much so that in 1976 the Congress, during America's Bicentennial, posthumously promoted Washington to the 6-star rank of "General of the Armies," the highest military rank ever bestowed upon any American."

http://home.comcast.net/~chief.executive.club/p1.htm

[RSillsbee]

11. Well Live and learn

Thanks for looking that up

[Blandocyte]

6. Congratulations, Mr. Morrison

A great wrong has been righted. Alert People Magazine!

:sarcasm:

[groundloop]

7. Hey, at least now I won't have to explain to my kids why I listen to the music of a sex offender

[Creative]

12. Well, it's good to know that Floridian politicians are just as good at wasting time

as Washington's politicians.