Emails show Haley Barbour was urged not to pardon DUI offender who ended up killing a woman
By Rich Phillips, CNN
Okolona, Mississippi (CNN) -- For more than three months, Linda Smith has wondered how the man who police say was driving drunk and involved in a crash last year that killed her daughter could be pardoned for a previous felony drunken driving offense.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has said he didn't know that retired IRS investigator Harry Bostick had been arrested for a DUI months after the state's parole board recommended that Barbour grant him a full pardon. (Police have determined that while Bostick was driving under the influence, he was not at fault for the accident)
But e-mails recently obtained by CNN show that Barbour's office was aware of Bostick's October DUI arrest months before Barbour pardoned him along with more than 200 other convicted felons during his last days in office in January.
"They knew it, and they didn't stop it," said Smith, referring to the pardon. "Why didn't they do something?"
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/13/justice/mississippi-pardons-dui-emails/index.html?hpt=ju_c2
