11.17.2010

JIM MORRISON PARDONED

Jim Morrison of The Doors

Just saw this article and it gave me pause... Should we worry about pardoning Jim for his indecent exposure charges? Is there any family left that would care? Or is this governor using this opportunity to get some free publicity in the name of righteous rock n roll? What do you think? I say yeah why not clear the books on this trivial conviction...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is looking to pardon long-dead rocker Jim Morrison who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous 1969 concert in Miami.

Morrison was lead singer for top 1960s rock act The Doors and a Florida native. He was appealing the indecent exposure and profanity conviction when he died in 1971 in a Paris bathtub at age 27.


Crist told the St. Petersburg Times Tuesday that the more he looked into what happened that night, the more he thought it was right to seek a pardon. Morrison was fined and sentenced to six months in jail but never served that time.

A message left by The Associated Press with Crist's spokesman wasn't immediately returned.

Crist, a Republican-turned-independent, lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat earlier this month.

5 comments:

Chuck Mamula said...

This is so stupid,I dont know where to begin....Who cares?..He's been dead for 40 years....

Anonymous said...

Mainstream political hijinks, as usual...

Jon Campbell said...

Mainstream political hi-jinks, per usual...

Mitch Wilcher said...

Mitch wrote: "Leave Jim alone, he's probably laughing that the cops never got their shot at him in court! He's an outlaw, a renegade, a poet. Why wait til he's dead to give him a break?"

MJG196 said...

Why bother...

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