NEWS: Jim Morrison to Get Posthumous Pardon?

CELEB: Jim Morrison to Get Posthumous Pardon?

Jim Morrison is a legend for many reasons -- the Doors, poetry, leather pants, a tragic overdose and, of course, his infamous brushes with the law. The most notorious blunder took place during a 1969 concert in Miami, Florida where the rock-n-roll bad boy was arrested (and convicted) for indecent exposure and profanity after allegedly giving those in the front row a sneak peak of his nether regions. Unfortunately, before Morrison could follow through with an appeal, the frontman overdosed and died in a Parisian hotel.

However, a persuasive letter from Dave Diamond, a Doors fan living in Ohio, has prompted current Florida governor Charlie Crist to consider giving Morrison a posthumous pardon.

Wow, there you go, fingers crossed he does get a Pardon.

Then the aesthetics police can pardon him for his crimes against poetry.

I sincerely hope that a former's governor's "legal team" couldn't find anything better to do.

i bet Jim is thrilled about all of this.

I can envision the conversation:

Jim: "Holy shit Elvis, they are finally gonna pardon me!"
Elvis: "That's fucking awesome dude!"

oh wait, THEY'RE BOTH DEAD.

they only thing Jim has been doing lately is decomposing.

That was a bullshit charge anyway. The cops hated Morrison and all he stood for. It was jumped on by conservatives in the entertainment community (Jackie Gleason, etc), and myth became the truth. He was fucking with the crowd the whole night, with the lamb and all.

Wow... what a fucking waste of time.

The Doors are overrated anyways.

To me the man is a god. But yeah total waste of time. Regardless of the pardon people either love him or hate him or don't care. If anything the fact that right up to his death he rebeled against the police gave him cred.

I'm drunk as him. I'm out!

Didn't the Lay guy from Enron get let off the hook because he didn't have a chance to appeal before his death?

(And because he couldn't appeal, his ill-gotten gains couldn't be touched, because he wasn't actually done.)

Sure, let Morrison off. Definitely a lesser evil.

Dude.

you HAVE to know that Elvis and old Jimbo are alive and well and traveling the inter-galactic space ways on the equivalent to the Millennium Falcon.

do you think Morrison would care...?

this is a story i'm gonna tell my grandkids

He's probably done with that by now. Maybe his bones are still slowly drying out, but odds are the flesh is all gone, including the member that was alledged exposed.

Hmm, I'd like to think it was the Starship heart of Gold. It would be a better fit for those two.

they should try to make the law machine faster for who is still alive ... and maybe waiting in prison for an appeal about a crime they have not committed... instead of use their spare time for this bullshit.

amen

This is just a publicity stunt to get retiring baby-boomers to move to Florida.

I bet lots of ex-rockers are considering retirement in Florida, but worry The Man is just not hip enough for their rock n' roll 'tudes. But now that Florida's actually cool with Morrison's possibly-exposed genitals, (you know, after almost 40 years), they're probably hip enough to let folks' freakflags fly in activewear bathrobes and open-toe house slippers.

Jim could probably care less...

that hurts

That's nothing compared to English childrens TV.

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That's nothing compared to English childrens TV.

That video was better than the Article above. Thank you for sharing. (i think???)

Great show! And to think American kids are stuck with crap like "Dora the Explorer."

By the way, while governors are pardoning 60s rock stars, Schwartzenegger should really grant a posthumous pardon to the Doors' Elektra Records' stablemate Arthur Lee!

Sorry. But that's not real, right? I mean, that's a spoof they made after the fact, right?