“Not one person receiving a pardon would I not welcome as a co-worker, neighbor, or to sit beside me or any member of my family in a church pew or at a public event,” Matt Bevin wrote while defendi…
One of the pardons that has drawn scrutiny went to murderer Patrick Baker who was convicted of reckless homicide and sentenced to 19 years for a 2017 home break-in where prosecutors say Baker and an accomplice shot and killed a man in front of his wife. Baker’s family raised $21,500 last year for Bevin at a political fundraiser, the“This reeks of political favoritism. We can’t have that.
The former Republican governor also pardoned Micah Schoettle, who was convicted of raping a 9-year-old and sentenced to 23 years in prison. “It shocks the conscience. It’s offensive, it’s mind-boggling how any governor could be this irresponsible. It’s an abomination of the criminal justice system,” the victim’s Commonwealth Attorney Rob SandersIn a Twitter thread on Friday, Bevin defended his actions and said that financial and political considerations had nothing to do with the pardons.
“The myriad statements and suggestions that financial or political considerations played a part in the decision making process, are both highly offensive and entirely false… To repeat such uncorroborated rumors and lies is reprehensible,”
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