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DeSantis, Clemency Board remove 5-year waiting period to restore civil rights to felons Florida Rights Restoration Coalition celebrates victory, but says more work needs to be done Governor Ron DeSantis and the Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year waiting period for felons to apply to have civil rights restored, including the right to vote. and last updated 2021-03-10 19:28:33-05 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Governor Ron DeSantis and the Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year waiting period for felons to apply to have civil rights restored, including the right to vote. In add...

End to waiting periods among sweeping changes proposed for Florida’s clemency process Dara Kam, Senior reporter, News Service of Florida Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Supporters of restoring Florida felons' voting rights march to an early voting precinct, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition led marches to the polls in dozens of Florida counties. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing sweeping changes to the state’s clemency process b...

John Connolly, James 'Whitey' Bulger's former rogue FBI informant handler, granted conditional medical release from prison CNN 2/18/2021 By Rob Frehse, CNN © Marice Cohn Band/Pool/Miami Herald/AP Former FBI agent John Connolly listens in court at his 2008 trial in Miami. The former rogue FBI informant handler for mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be released from a Florida prison on a conditional medical release, a spokesman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review told CNN. John Connolly was released because he has terminal cancer, his attorney, James E. McDonald,...

John Connolly, the FBI agent and convicted murderer who tipped notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger to a pending federal indictment, has been released from Florida prison on a conditional medical release. Connolly’s tip helped facilitate the 16 years bulger spent on the lam, until he was tracked to an apartment in Santa Monica and arrested in 2011. Connolly was serving a 40-year sentence for second-degree murder in connection with his relationship to the former Boston mob boss and FBI informant. The duo was part of a murderous reign of terror that inspired two Hollywood movies...

The former rogue FBI informant handler for mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be released from a Florida prison on a conditional medical release, a