Their wait is over. Byrd was told Biden would be signing the pardons in one to three days. The Byrds plan to celebrate over a meal after church Sunday.
The full list of those granted clemency can be found here. In Maryland, Biden pardoned 58-year-old Arthur Lawrence Byrd of Clinton, who pleaded guilty to non-violent offenses at age 23.
The police officer who shot and killed a protester during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was not pardoned by former President Joe Biden, contrary to claims spreading online. But Byrd’s ...
In addition to Brown, Byrd and Castroflay, President Biden had also commuted the sentences of nearly 1500 people, making Thursday the largest single-day act of clemency in modern American history.
It follows the pardoning by President Donald Trump of the hundreds charged and convicted of participating in the Jan. 6 riots.
While Joe Biden was president, the Justice Department stood for Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd in the lawsuit. After Trump's inauguration last week, he pardoned the rioters, including those who ...