Comments on: Ron Berry, convicted sex offender, gets partial pardon http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/ Police and courts in the Lexington, Ky., area Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: anonymous http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-1467 anonymous Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:12:35 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-1467 how does one go about getting a record cleared if it is an old record or a govenors pardon? that would be something to educate people about really and I thank the last poster for bringing it up, is there any way to get false allegations taken out of an old record if one can prove that there is new evidence or evidence that should have been submitted and wasn't? how does one go about getting a record cleared if it is an old record or a govenors pardon? that would be something to educate people about really and I thank the last poster for bringing it up, is there any way to get false allegations taken out of an old record if one can prove that there is new evidence or evidence that should have been submitted and wasn’t?

]]> By: Marcus http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-1082 Marcus Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:07:37 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-1082 Loretta Blackburn Getting your rights restored will not eliminate your record. Getting your rights restored only "restores you rights". To get your record cleared you will need a "full" pardon from the Governor. Personally I see one as a "restoration of Rights" while the other I would consider a Pardon. Until that is done any background check that is run on you will bring up charges you have faced. Believe me, I had my rights restored in 1991 and I still face background issues even though I have been involved in correctional ministry for over 13 years now for the largest missionary correctional chaplaincy ministry in the world. It comes down to politics many times when going for the full pardon. I hope things will work for you in the long run but the correctional system is what it is and being an ex-offender will often stay with you for life. Blessings to you. Loretta Blackburn

Getting your rights restored will not eliminate your record. Getting your rights restored only “restores you rights”. To get your record cleared you will need a “full” pardon from the Governor. Personally I see one as a “restoration of Rights” while the other I would consider a Pardon. Until that is done any background check that is run on you will bring up charges you have faced. Believe me, I had my rights restored in 1991 and I still face background issues even though I have been involved in correctional ministry for over 13 years now for the largest missionary correctional chaplaincy ministry in the world. It comes down to politics many times when going for the full pardon.
I hope things will work for you in the long run but the correctional system is what it is and being an ex-offender will often stay with you for life.

Blessings to you.

]]> By: anonymous http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-594 anonymous Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:31:43 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-594 if a 1,000 people said that the sky was falling, that doesn't mean that the sky is falling, in this country we have a duty to see the other side of the coin, to use an open mind approach to things, and in fact you can't know who is telling the truth and who isn't unless you were there and even then it would have to be you that it was done to, memories change and there are all kinds of reasons why a person might get on a bandwagon or two? no I don't want to be publicly rediculed for not going along with the band that is why I didn't use my name, you wouldn't want to either if you dodn't want to just go along with the propaganda, as I said I have no idea what the man did or didn't do I wasn't there if a 1,000 people said that the sky was falling, that doesn’t mean that the sky is falling, in this country we have a duty to see the other side of the coin, to use an open mind approach to things, and in fact you can’t know who is telling the truth and who isn’t unless you were there and even then it would have to be you that it was done to, memories change and there are all kinds of reasons why a person might get on a bandwagon or two? no I don’t want to be publicly rediculed for not going along with the band that is why I didn’t use my name, you wouldn’t want to either if you dodn’t want to just go along with the propaganda, as I said I have no idea what the man did or didn’t do I wasn’t there

]]> By: Loretta Blackburn http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-475 Loretta Blackburn Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:43:32 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-475 My 2 cents I have not heard from you I gues you found what I alreay know about this Jiw Crew thinking City and State. Sister Blackburn My 2 cents I have not heard from you I gues you found what I alreay know about this Jiw Crew thinking City and State.
Sister Blackburn

]]> By: Ronnie http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-384 Ronnie Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:58:19 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-384 Whoever said that our Governor had any morals he is showing what he really is. He is not fit to be a Dog catcher. I hope the people of Ky. remember him when he run next time. He is such a liar he is still trying to get casinos in Ky. Whoever said that our Governor had any morals he is showing what he really is. He is not fit to be a Dog catcher. I hope the people of Ky. remember him when he run next time. He is such a liar he is still trying to get casinos in Ky.

]]> By: Loretta Blackburn http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-336 Loretta Blackburn Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:12:08 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-336 Thank you but I am turning in my app. to have my voting rights restored. What I need is this felony to go away so that it will not show on my record it is shopping me from getting jobs that I am skilled for, even when I was attending Cincinnati Christian University they could not hire me to work in the kitchen becuase of my felony. I return to Lexington and became homeless because it was causing me so many problems. So many people tried to help me in Cincinnati but every time the felony would block my patch and all the could do is advise to fix it. In Cincinnati $50 and it would be gone if I had committed my felony there. I worked with the mentaly ill in Cincy until the program closed down. If I had had more time and money could have found what, now I am stuck in Lexington and can do good to keep a roof over my had. I could not even contine the education that I was getting in Cincy, because there is know Leadership/Ministry program not Ministry but Leadership/Ministry in Lexington. I could even take the class on line because I do not make enough money to pay for the internet. I left here because Lexington was not a place to meet my needs and if I stayed here I would have died. Sister Blackbutn Any Help that you can give me would be a blessing Thank You Thank you but I am turning in my app. to have my voting rights restored. What I need is this felony to go away so that it will not show on my record it is shopping me from getting jobs that I am skilled for, even when I was attending Cincinnati Christian University they could not hire me to work in the kitchen becuase of my felony. I return to Lexington and became homeless because it was causing me so many problems. So many people tried to help me in Cincinnati but every time the felony would block my patch and all the could do is advise to fix it. In Cincinnati $50 and it would be gone if I had committed my felony there. I worked with the mentaly ill in Cincy until the program closed down. If I had had more time and money could have found what, now I am stuck in Lexington and can do good to keep a roof over my had. I could not even contine the education that I was getting in Cincy, because there is know Leadership/Ministry program not Ministry but Leadership/Ministry in Lexington. I could even take the class on line because I do not make enough money to pay for the internet. I left here because Lexington was not a place to meet my needs and if I stayed here I would have died.
Sister Blackbutn
Any Help that you can give me would be a blessing
Thank You

]]> By: My 2 cents http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-318 My 2 cents Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:42:57 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-318 Ms. Blackburn, I will offer an attempt to help you get your voting rights restored. Give me a few days to see what all a full pardon entails. I'll be back. Ms. Blackburn, I will offer an attempt to help you get your voting rights restored.

Give me a few days to see what all a full pardon entails. I’ll be back.

]]> By: Loretta Blackburn http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-289 Loretta Blackburn Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:56:20 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-289 Who can tell me why that I can not get a full pardon when I have changed my life and my felony is 24 years old. Inmates have been let out who have not proven their self . Where is the justice in this from a country that says the USA is the land of the free who can answer my question???????? Who can tell me why that I can not get a full pardon when I have changed my life and my felony is 24 years old. Inmates have been let out who have not proven their self . Where is the justice in this from a country that says the USA is the land of the free who can answer my question????????

]]> By: My 2 cents http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-284 My 2 cents Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:14:11 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-284 Let us look at the "partial pardon." Ron Berry, again, has a right to vote. Big deal? Not to any of us above age 18 who are not convicted felons. However, this IS a big deal to the people who "did the crime and did the time." There are, more than likely, several thousand in the state of Kentucky in that position, yet could not have their right to voted restored under Uncle Ernie's watch. While I do not approve of everything Governor Beshear is doing/has done - this is one point which I go along with. In my opinion, Ray Larsen is one of the toughest prosecutors I've ever known of. I've watched and read his work for years. He is definitely tough on crime. Somehow one slipped past him. This slip up does in no way change my opinion of his office. Back to Ron Berry and his restored right to hold office. At first reading, I too, was infuriated. How DARE that to be true? Mr. Blanton's explanation of the right to hold office being attached to the right to vote explained that. There is no possible way the people of Lexington/Fayette County would ever elect Ron Berry into another official capacity. I'm sure Governor Beshear is/was well aware of that before he lived up to his promise of restoring voting rights to those convicted felons who apply for them. Let the anger and disgust rest. It's old. It's dead. It's the past. Remember all of the abused and neglected children in Kentucky and remained determined to fight and legislate for their protection. Remember the families of the children - and pray for the healing families. Let us look at the “partial pardon.”

Ron Berry, again, has a right to vote. Big deal? Not to any of us above age 18 who are not convicted felons. However, this IS a big deal to the people who “did the crime and did the time.” There are, more than likely, several thousand in the state of Kentucky in that position, yet could not have their right to voted restored under Uncle Ernie’s watch.

While I do not approve of everything Governor Beshear is doing/has done - this is one point which I go along with.

In my opinion, Ray Larsen is one of the toughest prosecutors I’ve ever known of. I’ve watched and read his work for years. He is definitely tough on crime. Somehow one slipped past him. This slip up does in no way change my opinion of his office.

Back to Ron Berry and his restored right to hold office. At first reading, I too, was infuriated. How DARE that to be true? Mr. Blanton’s explanation of the right to hold office being attached to the right to vote explained that.

There is no possible way the people of Lexington/Fayette County would ever elect Ron Berry into another official capacity.

I’m sure Governor Beshear is/was well aware of that before he lived up to his promise of restoring voting rights to those convicted felons who apply for them.

Let the anger and disgust rest. It’s old. It’s dead. It’s the past.

Remember all of the abused and neglected children in Kentucky and remained determined to fight and legislate for their protection. Remember the families of the children - and pray for the healing families.

]]> By: Malcolm http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/2008/08/28/beshear-gives-ron-berry-partial-pardon/#comment-282 Malcolm Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:58:01 +0000 http://bluegrassbeat.bloginky.com/?p=544#comment-282 Well Mr. Beshear, You know how to piss off the people who vote for you. I am a guaranteed a no vote for you. I expect my elected politicians to have some common sense and you have proven to the people you have none. I think it was Pres. Reagan who remarked that "Politics is the 2nd oldest profession and is suspiciously like the first(prostitution)". Mr. Berry when you pass on remember that society is getting rid of human garbage like yourself. Well Mr. Beshear,
You know how to piss off the people who vote for you. I am a guaranteed a no vote for you. I expect my elected politicians to have some common sense and you have proven to the people you have none. I think it was Pres. Reagan who remarked that “Politics is the 2nd oldest profession and is suspiciously like the first(prostitution)”. Mr. Berry when you pass on remember that society is getting rid of human garbage like yourself.

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