Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pardoned three men yesterday who were convicted of drug charges in the 1970s, marking the first state pardons in six years.
The actions are a turnaround from the policy of Gov. Gray Davis, who never pardoned a convict during his 4½ years in office. Schwarzenegger has also been more aggressive than his predecessor at paroling convicted murderers and kidnappers, freeing dozens in his first year in office compared with the eight life-term inmates Davis paroled.
The governor's office said in a statement the pardoned men, each 53 years old, had committed nonviolent crimes and rebounded by contributing to their communities. The men are James Brown, Antonio Garcia and Alec Webster. The last pardon in the state was by Davis' predecessor, Gov. Pete Wilson, in 1998.
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