American rock legend Jim Morrison may receive a posthumous pardon for charges framed against the singer in 1969 after he exposed himself during a drunken bout on-stage.
Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, was accused of indecent exposure and lewd acts while drunk during a 1969 concert in Coconut Grove, south of Miami. He was absolved of drunkenness charges during the trial, apart from a felony charge for lewd and lascivious behaviour, but was convicted of exposure and profanity. Morrison, a Florida native, paid bail and moved to Paris where he died in July 1971 at the age of 27.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who has just two months left in office, told The Hill that he was considering posthumously pardoning the Morrison. “Candidly, it's something that I haven’t given a lot of thought to, but it's something I’m willing to look into in the time I have left,” said Crist. “Anything is possible.”
"The Jim Morrison pardon is an issue he has been asked about repeatedly and as he said in the Hill today, it is something he is certainly willing to look at," spokesman Sterling Ivey said Monday, according to Florida Today.
Florida state law requires that a pardon must be approved by the Governor and two other members of the Board of Executive Clemency. The other members are the state's chief financial officer, attorney general and agriculture commissioner.
