Governor asks Supreme Court to OK clemency for six
Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday requested that the Supreme Court recommend five sentence commutations and one pardon. Under the state constitution, at least four Supreme Court justices must recommend clemency before the Governor can pardon, or commute the sentence of, someone who has been “twice convicted of a felony.”
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