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...drug ties when he was a police chief in the 1990s. Philippe denies the charge. Gousse insists the cases of Chamblain and other Raboteau convicts - like Jean Tatoune, a rebel-army leader whose conviction appeal is still pending - will be treated impartially. But Gousse has already hinted he'll pardon Tatoune, and before Chamblain ceremoniously walked into a jail cell last month he was hailed by Latortue as a "freedom fighter" and served briefly as a judge in the port city of Gonaives, where Raboteau is located. According to Pierre Esperance, director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights...
DIED. ED GREGORY JR., 66, colorful carnival owner and felon who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000; of pulmonary disease; in Nashville, Tenn. The pardon--Gregory had been convicted of bank fraud--prompted a congressional investigation into his financial ties with the President's brother-in-law Tony Rodham, who had received $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees from Gregory...
...ring, and many perfectly sensible policies are now strictly off limits for any Democrat who hopes to get elected—which is most of them. Desperate to dodge the “liberal” label, Kerry has been boxed into a corner (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). And unless the Republican-imposed taboos can be broken, the country may soon be on the ropes...
...legitimate doctrine in the 16th century. The Reformation also bathed in the blood of the Lamb, and rare is the American Protestant congregation that doesn't sing, "O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood/to every believer the promise of God/The vilest offender who truly believes/That moment from Jesus a pardon receives...
...February 2002, the Israeli high court cited incompatibility as its reason to pardon Hiller’s son from his military service. Hiller had hoped the court would instead grant the pardon because of her son’s conscientious objection...