Sentence examples for pursued clemency from inspiring English sources
Mr. Rodham, former White House aides said, also pursued clemency for Nora and Eugene Lum, who had been convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Democrats.
The lawyers said they are pursuing clemency for Phipps and are preparing to file legal motions for post-conviction relief aimed at winning Phipps a new trial.
The delay lets Mr. Garza pursue new clemency procedures for inmates on federal death row.
(In fact, because of this backlog, Mills's lawyers opted to pursue his commutation outside the official clemency initiative).
"The reason why I say there's still optimism is both Myuran and Andrew have strong applications for clemency because they've spent years pursuing educational projects, and their own reform and rehabilitation.
But they asserted that their client would remain free to pursue an appeal during the three months that the clemency application would take to be processed.
His present fate is to serve his entire sentence, release date December 18 , 2035...Mark's only hope is a clemency petition that his elderly wife and a small town lawyer are pursuing on his behalf.
Buddy Spell is calling on Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to grant Phipps clemency -- an order reducing his punishment to the time he has already served -- and is pursuing an application for post-conviction relief to win Phipps a new trial.
In a bid for clemency, Walt revealed his cancer had returned, as if this might dissuade his pit-bull brother-in-law from pursuing the case.
