“There was a kid who was 16 years old, he committed a burglary, he was aggravated, but not armed. And for that he got 108 years, one-hundred-and-eight years.”

—  Mike Huckabee

Timothy
Egan
The Fictions of Mike Huckabee
2011-03-03
Opinionator
The New York Times
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/the-fictions-of-mike-huckabee/
2011-03-04
regarding Maurice Clemmons, whose prison sentence Huckabee commuted in 2000

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