The Hucklebee situation has been really taken out of context. The Hucklebee parden was given out to the man because he had been convicted of a crime when he was 16.
He'd been in prison since he was 16. Also, Hucklebee's pardon didn't release him from prison but lifted the life sentence and made him elgible for parole. It was the parole board that granted him parole, and not Hucklebee as such, though the Govenor did release him from a life sentence. Since being release he had many, many run ins with the law. Finally he was arrested for Raping a 12 year old girl. The judges in Seattle that gave him a bail of only $15,000 made it possible for him to get out of jail. The prosecuters wanted $150,000. So, the major blame goes to the liberal Seattle judges.
Keith
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