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Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison
#13493561 - 11/16/10 03:54 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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What do you think about this? 41 years later, Jim is about to be pardoned for the Miami incident.
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November 16, 2010, 5:06 pm Governor of Florida Will Seek Pardon for Jim Morrison By DAVE ITZKOFF Associated Press
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known,” Jim Morrison sang on one of the hits he recorded with the Doors, but his afterlife continues to astound, too.
On Tuesday, Governor Charlie Crist of Florida said he will officially submit Morrison’s name to his state’s clemency board as a candidate to be pardoned for two convictions the iconoclastic rock star received following some outrageous behavior at a 1969 concert in Miami.
“I’ve decided that today,” Mr. Crist said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “I’ve decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it’s the right thing to do. In some ways it seems like a tragic conclusion to a young man’s life to have maybe this be a lasting legacy, where we’re not even sure that it actually occurred. The more that I’ve read about the case and the more I get briefed on it, the more convinced I am that maybe an injustice has been done here.”
After a raucous performance by the Doors at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, where witnesses said they saw a drunken Morrison expose himself, the singer was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, a felony, as well as several misdemeanors. Morrison was convicted at a 1970 trial of profanity and indecent exposure, both misdemeanors, and fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail. But he never served the time: he was appealing the conviction when he died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27.
Mr. Crist, a Republican-turned-independent who lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in November and whose term as governor expires in January, seemed to side with many Doors fans in explaining his decision to submit Morrison for a pardon. As Morrison’s supporters have long argued, Mr. Crist said no documentary evidence presented at the singer’s trial showed Morrison exposing himself, and expressed regret that Morrison died before he could present his appeal. (Mr. Crist also noted that both he and Morrison attended Florida State University.)
“It just creates a lot of empathy, all these circumstances that add up,” Mr. Crist. “And my heart bleeds for he and his family that this may not have even ever happened, yet it’s unfortunately currently part of his record.”
A pardon for Morrison would still have to be approved by Florida’s Board of Executive Clemency, whose whose four-member roster includes Mr. Crist. Its final meeting before Mr. Crist’s term expires is scheduled for Dec. 9, the day after what would have been Morrison’s 67th birthday.
(http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13493599 - 11/16/10 04:02 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm glad to see they're working on something that will really have an affect on our sinking economy, failing public education, increasingly endangered environment, and decrepit roadways.
Florida is a fucking embarrassment.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: blewmeanie]
#13493690 - 11/16/10 04:17 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I thought the same thing. But this guy's on his way out. I don't suppose there's a lot else he can do.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: Learyfan]
#13493808 - 11/16/10 04:40 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Did Jim Morrison come back from the dead or something?
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: bigmike7104]
#13493925 - 11/16/10 04:58 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't know. The article doesn't mention it. 
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: Learyfan]
#13493977 - 11/16/10 05:05 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Do they have nothing else to do?
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: learningtofly]
#13493982 - 11/16/10 05:07 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Apparently. But I guess if you're going to waste the tax payers money, this is the coolest way to do it.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: bigmike7104]
#13493998 - 11/16/10 05:09 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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bigmike7104 said: Did Jim Morrison come back from the dead or something?
Yeah, he's forming a capella supergroup with Elvis, 2pac, and Kurt Cobain.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: blewmeanie]
#13494005 - 11/16/10 05:10 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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blewmeanie said: I'm glad to see they're working on something that will really have an affect on our sinking economy, failing public education, increasingly endangered environment, and decrepit roadways.
Florida is a fucking embarrassment.
 Yeah, Florida is pretty fucked.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: fapjack]
#13494019 - 11/16/10 05:12 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Looks like we're going to get a highspeed train between Orlando, Tampa, and Miami, and they're going to exonerate a man who's been dead for several decades, so I'm sure it'll all work out in the end.
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: blewmeanie]
#13494083 - 11/16/10 05:23 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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"You're all a bunch of fuckin' idiots!"
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: Learyfan]
#13494196 - 11/16/10 05:43 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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eeesh what a waste of time and money
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Re: Governor of Florida will seek pardon for Jim Morrison [Re: Hakim0777] 1
#13607509 - 12/09/10 02:49 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, they did it. One day after his birthday.
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Doors' Morrison pardoned in indecent exposure case
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Brendan Farrington And Suzette Laboy, Associated Press – 27 mins ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jim Morrison was posthumously pardoned Thursday for a 1970 indecent exposure conviction in Florida, a move a woman who said she was married to The Doors lead singer called a cheap political ploy.
Morrison, a Florida native, was appealing the conviction when he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971 at age 27. The pardon came a day after the singer would have turned 67.
Outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist asked for the pardon, which the Clemency Board granted unanimously. Crist said he doubts Morrison actually exposed his penis during a rowdy March 1, 1969 concert at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. He and a three-member Cabinet serve as the Clemency Board. The surviving members of The Doors supported the pardon.
Crist at the hearing called the conviction a "blot" on the record of an accomplished artist for "something he may or may not have done." He said Morrison died before he was afforded the chance to present his appeal, so Crist was doing that for him. Board members pointed out several times that they couldn't retry the case but that the pardon forgave Morrison, as others were absolved of their convictions on Thursday.
"In this case the guilt or innocence is in God's hands, not ours," Crist said.
Patricia Kennealy Morrison told The Associated Press before the board's action that she's not pleased with the pardon and doesn't think the late singer would be either because he didn't expose himself on stage. The conviction should be expunged or the verdict overturned rather than just pardoned, she said.
"The pardon says that all his suffering and all that he went through during the trial, everything both of us went through, was negated," she said.
Earlier, when asked about expunging Morrison's record or overturning the conviction, Crist said, "The option before us is the pardon or not."
Still, it's not enough, Kennealy Morrison said.
"He felt and he expressed to me on numerous occasions that he had been made a scapegoat of the counterculture movement," Kennealy Morrison said. "He was out there doing what he did, making himself a really easy target because he felt very strongly about it. Unfortunately they decided to go after him for it. It was a complete cheap, cynical, political ploy. That's the way I feel about the pardon."
Kennealy Morrison exchanged vows with Morrison in a Celtic pagan ceremony overseen by a licensed minister, she said. The marriage was valid, though she says she never filed the paperwork to put it in the books. Morrison left his entire estate to another woman, Pamela Courson, a longtime girlfriend who was with him in Paris when he died. Courson died in 1974.
Surviving band members say a drunken Morrison teased the crowd, but never exposed himself.
"It never actually happened. It was mass hypnosis," Ray Manzarek, The Doors' keyboard player, said in an interview before the vote.
(yahoo.com)
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