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...Daniel T. Kobil © The Ohio State University Reviving Presidential Clemency in Cases of Unfortunate Guilt DANIEL T. KOBIL Professor of Law, Capital University Law School In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail,1 King Arthur and his intrepid band of English knights seek the Holy Grail from...

...Rachel E. Barkow © The Ohio State University The Politics of Forgiveness: Reconceptualizing Clemency Executive clemency is no longer a robust feature of American government. In recent decades, only a small handful of state governors have exercised their clemency power with any kind...

...Daniel T. Kobil © The Ohio State University Should Clemency Decisions be Subject to a Reasons Requirement? DANIEL T. KOBIL Professor of Law, Capital University Law School, in Columbus, Ohio, since 1987. Professor Kobil is the author of several articles and book chapters on clemency, including...

...David S. Doty © The Ohio State University Clemency: A View From the Bench of Two CommutationsÐ Vignali and Willis In the early 1990s, I sentenced three offendersÑSerena Nunn, Kim Willis and Carlos VignaliÑto long prison terms following convictions for dealing drugs. In July 2000 and January...

...Deborah A. Devaney © The Ohio State University A Voice for Victims: What Prosecutors Can Add to the Clemency Process We should have seen President ClintonÕs Inauguration Day 2001 pardons and commutations coming. They were foreshadowed by the clemency that he granted to 16 Puerto Rican...

...David M. Zlotnick © The Ohio State University Federal Prosecutors and the Clemency Power DAVID M. Z L OT N I C K Associate Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Harvard Law School. Professor Zlotnick was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District...

...Brian M. Hoffstadt © The Ohio State University Guarding the Integrity of the Clemency Power BRIAN M. H O F F S TA D T Assistant United States Attorney, Central District of California, U.S. Department of Justice; author of Normalizing the Federal Clemency Power, 79 TEX. L. REV. 561 (2001...

...Elizabeth Rapaport © The Ohio State University The Georgia Immigration Pardons: A Case Study in Mass Clemency ELIZABETH R A PA P O R T Professor of Law, University of New Mexico. I would like to express my gratitude to Gabriel J. Chin, Cary Copeland, and Barbara Schwartz for generously sharing...

...Matthew Gluck; Jack Goldsmith Abstract Since the nineteenth century, presidents have largely relied on recommendations from the Office of the Pardon Attorney when granting pardons and commutations. The current process for making clemency recommendations usually takes more than a year...

...Nkechi Taifa, Esq. © The Ohio State University Clemency: An Inside Story from a Progressive Advocate NKECHI TAIFA, ESQ.* Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice, Open Society Foundations In 1998, I authored an article for the Federal Sentencing Reporter (FSR), Re ections From the Frontlines1...

...Amy Ralston Povah © The Ohio State University Clemency Initiative Favored Male Repeat Offenders Over Women with No Prior Convictions Nothing sums up President Obama s Clemecy Initiative1 better than Charles Dickins passage from a Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst...

...Brittany K. Barnett © The Ohio State University My Experience with Clemency and the Power of Hope BRITTANY K. BARNETT* Attorney and Criminal Justice Reform Advocate A de ning time in my life can be attributed to a 7-digit number, 1374671 this number was assigned to my mother by the Texas...

...J.P. “Sandy” Ogilvy © The Ohio State University The Role and Experience of Law Students and Law Schools in Clemency Project 2014 The response of lawyers to the call to volunteer with Clemency Project 2014 was phenomenal. More than 3000 individuals from over 800 law rms, law schools...

...Erin R. Collins © The Ohio State University Clemency and the Administration of Hope In 2014, President Obama announced his intention to restor[e] fundamental ideals of justice and fairness to the criminal justice system by exercising his executive clemency power to commute sentences...

...Paul J. Larkin, Jr. © The Ohio State University Delegating Clemency At noon on January 20, 2017, President Barack Obama became private citizen Barack Obama when Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation s 45th President. Since then, policymakers, historians, and academics began the process...

...Margaret Colgate Love © The Ohio State University Obama s Clemency Legacy: An Assessment Shortly before the end of his term, President Obama published an article in the Harvard Law Review discussing his efforts to promote criminal justice reform. In it he described an ambitious approach...

...Molly M. Gill © The Ohio State University Clemency for Lifers: The Only Road Out Is the Road Not Taken Along with the increased use of sentencing guidelines, mandatory minimums, and truth-in-sentencing laws that limit or abolish parole, life without parole (LWOP) sentences have flourished...

...P.S. Ruckman, Jr. © The Ohio State University The Obama Administration: Breaking Records in a Broken Clemency System Nietzsche once observed that, occasionally, when a man talks about himself, the aim is to conceal as much about himself as he wishes to reveal. That witty insight seemed wildly...

...Paula B. McCarron © The Ohio State University After the Gavel Falls: An Introduction to the Department of Defense Clemency and Parole Process I refer to those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance...

...George W. Bush © The Ohio State University Statement by the President on Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby s request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury...