We recognize that confidence in the Executive Clemency process is low. However, with recent increased budget allotments for the Office of Executive Clemency and the revision of the rules governing clemency applications, we have guarded optimism for an improved clemency procedure and/or in the creation of a parole system in Florida. In either of those hoped for scenarios, an inmate with a pending Application for Executive Clemency may be one step ahead of the rest of the inmate population as the Commission of Offender Review, (formerly the Parole Commission), is the same agency that both reviews clemency applications and parole considerations for recommendations.

For these reasons, you might consider applying for Executive Clemency. Our office can assist you in this matter. In providing you clemency services we will assemble the necessary court documents and data from the inmate, and their friends and family, necessary to present the case in the best possible light.

It is important that you realize that you must have served 1/3 of your sentence, 1/2 of any mandatory sentence, or 20 years if you are serving a life sentence, to be eligible for clemency.

Our process for Parole Plans (if you are eligible for parole) and Clemency Applications, includes a limited case review service to determine if your sentence is entirely lawful. We conduct a sentence review first to fully familiarize ourselves with your case and history and to exhaust every effort to identify any illegal sentence claims.

In order to conduct the limited review, we will need to obtain a copy of whatever court documents you have, including the transcripts from your trial or plea and sentencing. If you are unable to obtain a copy of your trial transcripts and record, don’t be concerned, we can access your court records online in most counties. We will review the material you send to us and what we access through the Clerk of Court and go over our written findings with a Florida licensed attorney who will provide you with his legal findings and advice.

The fee for conducting the limited sentence review, meeting with the attorney and providing you with a written report on our findings is included in the clemency package fee (more details below). The only potential additional cost is travel expenses to visit the County Courthouse in the county of your conviction if we cannot access or obtain the record of your case using our normal methods; this is usually not required but can happen in older cases. We will not incur this additional expense without your authorization in advance.

Once we determine that there are no illegal sentence claims in your case that can be presented to the courts, we will then create a Clemency Package by assembling the necessary court documents and data from you, and your friends and family, necessary to present you and your case in the best possible light to the Clemency Board.

The steps we follow are:

STEP 1: We will send a Public Record Request to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Conviction and request a “Certified” copy of the Indictment or Information as well as the Judgment and Sentence. We will also send a public record request to the Department of Corrections for a copy of your institutional record. 

STEP 2: We will send you the Clemency Handout and get you started on providing us the data for our assembling of the “Memorandum of Biographical Facts” to file in support of the application.

STEP 3: Upon receipt of public records and data in support of the Memorandum of Biographical Facts from you, we will draft the application and send it to you for editing. If you are using one of our attorneys, he will review the draft following your editing.

STEP 4: Once these steps are completed, we will mail you the finished product for your review and have you sign the oath page to return to us for filing.

If you are parole eligible, we will prepare a Parole Plan using the data contained in the Clemency Application that was filed on your behalf at no additional cost. We believe you will be best served by filing a Request for Review-Clemency Package before your parole date so that your case will be in the process of investigation by the Commission of Offender Review (who reviews clemency applications) even before your parole date approaches. Once the Parole Plan is completed to your satisfaction, we will distribute it to the Commission of Offender Review before your hearing and furnish you with a copy for the Parole Examiner for your next interview.

Our team includes an amazing Parole and Clemency Specialist who works with parole eligible inmates on their parole cases with the goal of getting them transferred to the lifer’s FIU/CPT program at Everglades C.I. and then, upon completion, released on parole. If you are parole eligible and you retain us to prepare the clemency package, we will prepare a Parole Plan at no additional charge while we are working on your clemency package. Even if you are not parole eligible, our expertise in dealing with the Commission of Offender Review for nearly 30 years enables us to better serve your clemency needs as the Commission is the investigative body for clemency applications. Our goal is to provide both our parole ineligible and our parole eligible clients with the best possible chance of successful release either through the clemency commutation process or through positive parole hearings.