Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin defends controversial pardons amid news of FBI probe.
December 25, 2019, 12:26 AMNow-former Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned the killer days before leaving office, blaming the convict’s drug use and “sketchy” evidence.The FBI is looking into hundreds of pardons, some of them highly controversial, made by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin before he resigned his post in December, according to reports.
Patrick Baker, right, who was recently pardoned by former Gov. Matt Bevin, smiles at his attorneys during a press conference in Lexington, Ky. on Dec. 17, 2019.On Thursday, the now-former Republican governor defended his pardons, which have left victims and some in law enforcement outraged, during a more-than-17-minutes-long radio interview withBevin said he'd made"the most informed" decisions that he could after speaking to legal and law experts as well as advocates.
Bevins, a father of nine, did acknowledge in the interview that he had commuted the sentences of"a couple of people" who had been convicted of child rape. Bevin maintained that other people who remain in prison, and not Baker, were involved in the slaying in 2014.
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