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| Man Gets Sentence Commuted |
| By miamiherald.com |
| Published: 09/24/2010 |
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TALLAHASSEE -- A three-inch pocket knife cost Timothy Bunkley decades of freedom. But his persistence paid off, and he will walk out of prison any day now. In a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Bunkley had his life sentence commuted Thursday by Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet, an action rejected twice previously by the Florida Supreme Court. The vote was 3-1, with Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink voting no. The Parole Commission had recommended that the 54-year-old Bunkley remain in prison, where he has spent the past quarter-century. Bunkley botched the burglary of a Western Sizzlin' restaurant in Sarasota in 1986, and when sheriff's deputies caught him, they found a common pocket knife in his pants. Read More. |
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