US EditionFormer Chicago gang leader asks Pritzker for clemency following Trump pardon
Larry Hoover's clemency petition cites his decades of rehabilitation, failing health, and sentencing disparities amid divided public opinion on his potential release, supporters say.
- The Illinois Prisoner Review Board received and will review a clemency petition for the state murder case of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, following President Trump's commutation of Hoover's federal life sentence.
- Hoover's other avenue to freedom would be the granting of parole by the Prisoner Review Board.
- Hoover wrote that he takes responsibility for his crimes and wants to be home with his family and grandchildren.
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Prison board receives clemency petition for Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has received and is set to review a clemency petition for the state murder case of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a board spokesperson confirmed to the Tribune on Wednesday. The petition comes after President Donald Trump in May commuted the federal life sentence of Chicago-born Hoover, a controversial move that abruptly ended a yearslong quest by the notorious street gang leader to win early release …
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Former Chicago gang leader asks Pritzker for clemency following Trump pardon
One of Chicago's most infamous gang leaders is now asking Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this year.
Chicago Sun Times
Usa newsDrug kingpin Larry Hoover asks Gov. JB Pritzker for freedom
Since President Donald Trump commuted his federal life prison sentence five months ago, Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover has had three heart attacks and remains imprisoned in “extreme” conditions in Colorado, his lawyers say.Now, Hoover is asking Gov. JB Pritzker to finally make him a free man. Hoover’s lawyers sought clemency Wednesday from the Democratic governor in a petition that offers new insight into how Hoover has fared since T…
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Months after Trump’s pardon, Larry Hoover pushes for Pritzker clemency: EXCLUSIVE
Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell at the ADX Florence federal supermax facility in Colorado, where h…
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