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Current Developments_____________________________

• Bush Pardons 15 And Commutes Another, Associated Press (US), March 25, 2008
• Clemency Bids Backing Up for Bush, Los Angeles Times (US), November 22, 2007
   
• Pataki Skips Parting Gifts: Outgoing Governor Declines to Offer Year-End Clemency to Any Inmates , Albany Times Union (NY), December 26, 2006
   
• Pataki Grants One Christmas Clemency, Associated Press (NY), December 24, 2005
   
• Hoping for Clemency This Christmas, New York Law Journal (NY), December 10, 2004
   
• Queens man serving sentence of 15 years-to-life under Rockefeller Drug Laws since 1992 has been granted clemency. Clemency in Drug Conviction, Newsday (Queens), December 24, 2003
   
• Four people were granted clemency based on exemplary records while in prison, including three convicted of drug crimes, and one victim of domestic abuse. Governor Pataki Grants Clemency to Four Inmates, Governor's Press Release (NY), December 24, 2002
   
• Governor's grants of clemency to drug offenders underscores need to change Rockefeller Drug Laws. A Needless Ritual: Once Again, Holiday Clemency Shows the Need for Drug Law Reform, Albany Times Union (NY), January 2, 2002
   

Current Developments Outside New York_______________

• No Holiday Pardon for Libby, Associated Press (US), December 11, 2007
• Pardon Me? A Congressional Pardon?, New York Times (US), May 7, 2007
• Bush Pardons 16, Commutes Sentence in Drug Case, CNN (US), December 21, 2006
• Dying Prisoner Granted Clemency , Chicago Sun-Time (IL), July 27, 2006
• President Bush Grants Pardons to 11 Individuals, US Newswire (US), December 20, 2005
• Justice Department Releases List of Pardons Granted by President Bush, US Newswire (US), September 28, 2005
• Bush Pardons 4, Bringing Total to 31, CNN (US), December 21, 2004
• President Pardons Six People, CNN (US), November 18, 2004
• Woman Freed After 22 Years in Prison , Los Angeles Times (CA), May 26, 2004
• Small Mercies, Washington Post (US), December 24, 2002
• Bush Pardons 7, Including Ex-Moonshiner, Associated Press (US), December 24, 2002
• [Supreme] Court Refuses Death Row Legal Aid Case, Associated Press (US), December 9, 2002
   

Special Reports___________________________________

NY CLEMENCY DECISIONS
This is a list of Governor Pataki's clemency decisions (including commutations, pardons or reprieves) drawn from press releases and other news sources. The Governor is required to "annually communicate to the legislature each case of reprieve, commutation or pardon granted, stating the name of the convict, the crime of which the convict was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the date of the commutation, pardon or reprieve." NY Const. Art. IV, § 4

Research Links__________________________________

• Clemency Law (LLRX)
• NYS Parole Handbook (1998) (Section 9)
• Office of the Pardon Attorney (DOJ)
• Presidential Pardons (Jurist)
• Records Relating to Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Pardons, Information (NYSL)
• State by State Guide to Clemency (CJPF)