Huckabee is lying about cop killer's criminal record in Arkansas

The Examiner ^ | 12/5/2009 | Kevin Hall

[bigred08]

There were also three separate courtroom incidents in 1990 where Clemmons tried to use a weapon against a judge, threw a padlock at a bailiff, and tried to take a guard's pistol. A judge ordered Clemmons be placed in leg shackles because he felt Clemmons threatened him.

[junta]

Clemmons is a hero in certain Obama voting demographics.

[sauropod]

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[Jeff Head]

In addition to his courtroom behavior, Clemmons had a long history of crime in Arkansas as a teenager that was a little more involved than what Huckabee has explained on Hannity or on O’Reilly.

By 1990, when he was 18 year old, Clemmons had been sentenced to the 108 years in prison for eight felony charges from those teenage years in Arkansas. The total prison term stemmed from multiple sentences, some of which were concurrent and others consecutive. The largest sentencing came in 1990, when he was given a 60-year prison term for breaking into an Arkansas state trooper’s home and stealing about $6,700-worth of items, including a gun. Clemmons was also sentenced in 1989 to 35 years in prison for robbing a woman at midnight in the parking lot of a Little Rock hotel bar. Clemmons pretended to have a gun in his pocket and threatened to shoot her if she did not give him her purse. When she reportedly responded, “Well, why don’t you just shoot?”, Clemmons punched her in the head and ran off with the purse, which contained $16 and a credit card. This is the incident that Huckabee talks about Clemmons getting such a long sentence for just stealing $16 dollars. Among Clemmons other sentencings were six years for weapon possession based on an arrest when he was a junior at Hall High School for carrying a .25-caliber pistol on school property; and eight years for burglary, theft and probation in Pulaski County on September 9, 1989. All in all Clemmons was not to be eligible for parole until 2015 or later.

This is the individual and set of criminal circumstances that Huckabee says any of us would have commuted. I disagree...with this string of crimes, and particularly his last one where he stole the large amount of material and the gun (and being known for being arrested for either carrying weapons or claiming to while committing his crimes), I would have stood by the long sentence to keep this increasingly violent person off of our streets.

And, Mike knows as well as anyone else, thet when a state governor gives clemency, and reduces a sentence specifically to make a person eligable for parole, the parol board almost always rubber stamps that decision and grants parole. The clemency itself from the governor acts as a recommendation to the parole board that is as compelling as any witness that would come before them.

Now, there are plenty of others after Huckabee who also failed and carry the weight and burden of some responsibility for this animal being on the street. There were other ample opportunities to keep Clemmonsin jail when he was caught, when he violated parole in Arkansas, when the prosecutor failed to bring charges quickly enough which allowed his release (both that prosecutor and the judge who granted his release bear some of the burden), and the latest occuring only 6 days before he killed the officer when he was awaiting a hearinging for raping a 13 year old girl and assaulting a sheriff’s deputy...and was released on 150,000 bail.

But., the simple fact is, if Huckabee had not commutted his sentence through clemency, he would never have been on the street to do any of that.

The criminal carries the burden for committing the crime...but once he was incarcerted and in prison, those that made it possible for him to be out of prison early, or out of jail on bail, carry the weight for putting him in a position (on the street) where he could commit those crimes. Huckabee is first in line on that latter list.

Now...turning to the principle threat...

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA

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THE MODERN AMERICAN DECLARATION OF LIBERTY - WE MUST TAKE AMERICA BACK!

[Mac from Cleveland]

One hundred years ago they would have taken this rabid dog (apologies to actual rabid dogs) out and stretched his wretched neck.

We’re so much more evolved now—isn’t it wonderful?

[driftdiver]

And while you continue to slam Huckabee the real threat continues to grow.

[skeeter]

Huckabee has behaved disgustingly through this entire thing.

[marstegreg]

This is not the first politician who pardoned criminals. Look at the scumbags that Clinton let off the hook. It was definately the wrong thing to do, but I would like to know who has been letting this man off the hook for the past ten years. Huckabee gave him 1 chance. Who has been responsible for letting these guys off the hook since. He was wrong to do what he did, but he is hardly alone here. I would like to know who else kept putting these guys out on our streets? Huckabee did this 10 years ago. Obviously, these people kept on being criminals. Who has been letting them go ( besides Huckabee)? My guess is Liberal judges, who are more than happy to throw him under the bus, but shouldn’t they shoulder some of this burden?

[Shimmer1]

I completely understand your concern, but what...are we to never talk about anything else because the threat is looming?? We must watch on all fronts, and knowing what this possible presidential contender has done has it’s own importance too.
Thanks for listening.

[Maelstorm]

The happy pardoner Huckabee should now be out of consideration for any run for the President. This issue is the primary one that soured me on him though there were plenty more while many conservatives were fooled by his “awe shucks” “Praise Jesus” persona I couldn’t get over his total lack of judgment in the cavalier way he released what were in many cases violent felons. I don’t give people passes just because they praise Jesus and have an “R” in front of their name. Granted my opinion of Huckabee has improved since the election this situation with Clemens the reason why he should never be considered for President.

[ASA Vet]

BR thank you for reminding us, (some apparently really need reminding,) to never vote for fools who help “the real threat to grow.”

[OregonTide]

Behaved predictably....

[dforest]

He was on Fox and Friends this morning spinning the story again.

He needs to stop it. He made a horrible mistake and now people are dead.

[driftdiver]

This horse is dead. The liberals are very good at instigating strife within the conservative ranks. While we take turns stabbing Palin, Romney, Huckster and so forth in the back they continue their mad dash into communism.

Besides this horse is dead.

[driftdiver]

He didn’t pardon this slimeball. At least get your lies halfway correct.

[AuntB]

BTT

No more Huckabee!

[faucetman]

Thank for posting this complete info. I for one was unaware of all the details. If we can be subjected to anti-Romney ads adnausium, we can read a post about something other than the Bamster.

Thanks again. Very informative.

How about some anti-Huckabee ads as well. He is a phony.

[Shimmer1]

I appreciated the info given in the article though. Maybe the horse is just almost dead?? heehee

[muawiyah]

You're getting closer to the problem. But it's farther back than 100 years ago. I believe it was some time in the late 1890s that cities and counties were denied the right to conduct executions.

Under that standard numerous criminals were found wanting and were disposed without regard for whether or not they'd commited capital crimes (for which they'd been caught).

When executions were raised to the level of the state, more deliberation was given to examining the candidate,and more exactitude was given to which laws and penalties were applicable.

A century ago this fellow would most certainly have been consigned to prison where he'd become a block captain or a dead body.

Governor Dean was once recorded as saying that the problem with capital punishment is that unless its exercised someone else is going to die because that class of criminal is going to kill another prisoner, a prison employee, or a prison visitor ~ WITH CERTAINTY.

He said he knew that if he commuted a death sentence he was killing someone just the same as if he didn't commute that sentence.

Alas, this guy wasn't charged with killing anyone when he first went to prison.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Wasn’t he charged with rape back then? That was a capital crime up until the 1960s (Carryl Chessman)