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On June 10, 2026, the Minnesota Board of Pardons convened at the Minnesota Senate Building. There was much fanfare in the media over the commutation hearing of Adrian Riley’s 1995 triple homicide case. News cameras were set

Earlier this year Chief Justice Natalie Hudson announced that she was going to retire on September 30, 2026. This opened up the spot for who would be the next Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. In many states, who

If you have a felony conviction in Wisconsin, there are many reasons that you may be wanting to get a pardon for your felony conviction. Employment, housing, and gun rights are some of the more frequent reasons I hear about...

The May 4th pardon of Ricky Chandee is in the news. In January of 2026, he was scooped up by ICE in Operation Metro Surge. He had a 1993 felony on his record that he committed when he was 18 years old. He had no criminal...

For decades, people serving prison sentences in Wisconsin had virtually no path to ask for a second look at their sentence once it was imposed and the appeal/postconviction deadlines had passed. That just changed. On April 3,