tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post1889231662685451639..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Presser urges Perry to add Tim Cole pardon authorization to callGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-47014104033047733882009-07-02T21:40:20.870-05:002009-07-02T21:40:20.870-05:00I was trying to leave but Informed Citizen pulled ...I was trying to leave but Informed Citizen pulled me back in. I'm with Boyness, when do we start campaigning? You sound kind of lawyery but dead on the facts. Please write that same statement to all of the major papers and news groups.NoMoreNoloContenderehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16845221171793931522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-32954451970946725702009-07-02T20:32:33.586-05:002009-07-02T20:32:33.586-05:00Informed Citizen said...
A PARDON is not nece...Informed Citizen said...<br /><br /> A PARDON is not necessary for a person who has been Exonerated. A pardon is forgiveness for an offense. THERE WAS NO OFFENSE.<br /> Tim Cole was posthumously exonerated "on the basis of actual innocence". Thus, his Right, and the Right of every Citizen to restitution for property taken by THE STATE OF TEXAS, via wrongful imprisonment, was not alienated under the color of statutory law known as "the Tim Cole Act".<br /><br /> 7/02/2009 11:49:00 AM<br />---------------------------------<br />Whatever. Apparently you are the only person in Texas who understands this. Why aren't you running for something?Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86181810115396753202009-07-02T11:49:31.114-05:002009-07-02T11:49:31.114-05:00A PARDON is not necessary for a person who has bee...A PARDON is not necessary for a person who has been Exonerated. A pardon is forgiveness for an offense. THERE WAS NO OFFENSE.<br />Tim Cole was posthumously exonerated "on the basis of actual innocence". Thus, his Right, and the Right of every Citizen to restitution for property taken by THE STATE OF TEXAS, via wrongful imprisonment, was not alienated under the color of statutory law known as "the Tim Cole Act".Informed Citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06933944702188649792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-89095390380830523892009-07-02T00:31:06.300-05:002009-07-02T00:31:06.300-05:00Grits said: "There's no constituency agai...Grits said: "There's no constituency against the cause and it's hard to see what would be the downside."<br /><br />The downside, from the Gov's perspective, would be formally admitting that he had been wrong all along, and giving in to an inmate's family, because that is still what Tim Cole's family are in the minds of many. It's the "tuff on crime" stance and the only way to change it is to remove it.sunray's wenchhttp://silvaculture.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7225735191898600862009-07-01T22:40:15.803-05:002009-07-01T22:40:15.803-05:00I hate to be ugly but RICK PERRY DOES NOT CARE ABO...I hate to be ugly but RICK PERRY DOES NOT CARE ABOUT TIM COLE or any other exoneree! It's just the truth and there's no nice way to say it. Lip service ("we'll get this right") and a photo op with Tim's mother are all you are going to see and get.Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-80080085306681766482009-07-01T15:29:26.083-05:002009-07-01T15:29:26.083-05:00You going to take a cake too.You going to take a cake too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5379749215755357832009-07-01T14:21:32.135-05:002009-07-01T14:21:32.135-05:00He should also add a bill to require separate tria...He should also add a bill to require separate trials in capital cases, which is the issue he cited as the reason for his commutation of the death sentence of Kenneth Foster.<br /><br />I have not seen any opposition to the separate trials issue. It only died in the Senate from lack of time. It was on the last intent calendar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com