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Nov 9th, 2010 at 8:25pm

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Fla. Clemency Board considers pardon for late Jim Morrison of famed Doors rock group

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One of the final acts of Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet could be to clear the record of former Doors frontman Jim Morrison, who was convicted for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami in 1969. He died two years later.

Crist has been asked about this several times since former Miami Herald reporter Gary Fineout first raised the issue. As Fineout has pointed out, Crist is a fan of the Doors and Morrison, like Crist, grew up in Florida and attended Florida State University.

Crist is open to the pardon and said today that it would be up to his fellow Clemency Board members.

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Reply #1 - Nov 13th, 2010 at 2:30pm

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Nothing against Jim Morrison or the Doors but, don't our politicians have anything better to do than get involved with a 40 year old IE case aganist a drunk who, at the time, proudly  wore the IE arrest like a badge of triumph against authority?

He broke the law, got arrested, and got tons of free publicicity from it.
There are perhaps thousands in Florida (or any other state) who are more deserving of a pardon than Morrison. 
There are truly inocent people who were wrongly executed who did not get the attention that Morrison is getting  Wink
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Reply #2 - Nov 16th, 2010 at 7:38pm

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Keep It Simple wrote on Nov 13th, 2010 at 2:30pm:
Nothing against Jim Morrison or the Doors but, don't our politicians have anything better to do than get involved with a 40 year old IE case aganist a drunk who, at the time, proudly  wore the IE arrest like a badge of triumph against authority?

He broke the law, got arrested, and got tons of free publicicity from it.
There are perhaps thousands in Florida (or any other state) who are more deserving of a pardon than Morrison. 
There are truly inocent people who were wrongly executed who did not get the attention that Morrison is getting  Wink

Yeah, but we're not talking about just any ordinary Joe's wang being exposed, we're talking about Jim Morrison's wang.

Back in the 60's the Jim Morrison's wang being exposed to impressionable teenagers would inspire the kind of fear that today only Chuck Norris with a q-tip could.
 

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Reply #3 - Dec 9th, 2010 at 4:20pm

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Doors Lead Singer Jim Morrison Gets Florida Pardon 40 Years After Death

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Florida’s clemency board pardoned The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison posthumously for his 1970 conviction in Miami of indecent exposure.

Governor Charlie Crist, who leaves office next month, brought the case before the board, which agreed in Tallahassee today to clear the musician ...
 

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