Mike Pence Is Actively Refusing to Pardon a Completely Innocent Man

He has done nothing to help however!! Can't defend his running mate so what makes anyone think he would help an innocent man!!

Why didn't he have a new trial at the time? Because he would have to sit in jail while that happened. He was offered a devil's choice of waiting in jail to go through a new trial or get out immediately with the conviction. He chose to immediately get out. Since then he has been waiting three years for the answer to a pardon request, which he only just now got. He could start a new trial, which as I understand it he is starting to do. I wonder how much such a new trial will cost him and how someone who is likely unable to find decent work due to that conviction can pay for it? I hope (and wouldn't be surprised if it is happening) that he is getting quality free legal support from someone equally unhappy at the injustice.

There is no question of legality here, this is clearly within the governor's legal capacity. Instead this is a question of justice, values and ethics. Yes you can always force someone to go through the normal channels even if you know an injustice has occurred. The question is, should you?

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel This is an editorial, not the original article. The only thing I know about Pence is what I saw in the VP debate. So that is to say nothing note worthy. I live in Florida so the procedure in Indiana is not something I am familiar with either. If the state has a procedure by which an innocent man may have their conviction overturned, then that is what should be pursued first. On the other hand, if the office of the prosecutor goes to the court and says "we got the wrong guy convicted" the court should immediately and without any input required by the convicted, rescind the conviction. They should release the convicted immediately with the court's apology, and the conviction removed from the convicted person's record. The governor should not need to be asked to pardon the individual. All that aside, if I were the governor of a state, and I received a request to pardon an innocent person with the circumstances given in the article, I would be asking why this is coming to my desk. I would be asking why the conviction hadn't been overturned when an innocent man had been incarcerated. I would not dismiss the idea of a pardon, but I would want to know why it came all the way to a gubernatorial pardon when it should have been resolved at a lower level. If I were forced to sign the pardon, I would do so, but I would be pissed at the judge, prosecutor, and attorney who forced it to that level.