Boston Lawyer BlogJustice Can’t Wait: Governor Healey Grants Seven Pardons and Recommends Modernization of the State’s Clemency Guidelines
This is a follow up to a previous blog about clemency: you can read that post here.
Last month, Governor Maura Healey recommended seven individuals to the Governor’s Council for pardons and on July 19, 2023, the Governor’s Council unanimously voted in favor of all seven pardons. A pardon is complete forgiveness of the underlying convicted offense, which erases the crime from an individual’s criminal record. These pardons make Governor Healey the first Governor in Massachusetts in over thirty years to successfully grant pardons during her first year elected. These seven pardons also mark the highest number of pardons granted by a Massachusetts Governor in their first term in over forty years.
