Illinois governor grants 5 petitions for clemency, denies 97
Posted November 22, 2017 6:00 am
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted five petitions for clemency and denied 97 others.
The Republican's office announced the action on Wednesday, saying it's the twenty-first set of petitions Rauner has taken up since becoming governor in 2015.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board didn't immediately release details on the cases.
People whose clemency petitions are granted may go to court to try to have their criminal record expunged. All have undergone a recent criminal background check through an Illinois authorities' data system.
Rauner announced last year that he'd eliminated a backlog of thousands of clemency requests he inherited from previous governors.
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