Matt Bevin has been praised and pilloried over the pardons and commutations. Here’s how it happened.
But John Tilley, Bevin’s head of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, saw another side of the unpopular governor.
“But we also didn’t know of several that he was reviewing,” Tilley said, “because those applications go directly to his office.”Bevin’s office received appeals from convicts and their advocates, including relatives and politicians. Sen. Rand Paul initiated a request to pardon Christopher II X, a Louisville community activist who was convicted on a drug charge and failure to return a rental car in the 1990s, according to his office.
“I believe in second chances,” Barbour said in an interview this week. “I can assure you, I would do it again.” Among the people whom Bevin granted clemency over Tilley’s objections was Delmar Partin, 63, who had been convicted of killing Betty Carnes by decapitating her and stuffing her body in a barrel. Prosecutors said Carnes had broken off an affair with him.
Bevin has also drawn criticism for pardoning Patrick Baker, convicted in 2017 of reckless homicide, robbery, impersonating a policeofficer and tampering with evidence. Baker’s parents filed a pardon application with Bevin’s office in July 2018, while he submitted a handwritten letter saying his family “is struggling without me.”
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