In 2019, the outgoing Republican governor pardoned Patrick Baker, who was related to a couple that had raised more than $20,000 for Bevin.
Federal authorities have charged a 43-year-old man with murder after outgoing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned him a year after his family had raised thousands of dollars for the Republican politician.
U.S. Marshals arrested Patrick Baker on Sunday, and federal prosecutors charged him for the 2014 killing of Donald Mills, according to court recordsBaker was convicted in 2017 of reckless homicide and first-degree robbery for fatally shooting 29-year-old Mills during a home invasion in which he had hoped to steal pain pills.Federal authorities charged Patrick Baker with murder after Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned him on his way out of office.after losing his election to current Democratic Gov.
It was one of the more than 400 pardons the Republican governor made on his way out of office. Bevin also pardoned a man convicted of bludgeoning his female colleague to death and a convicted child rapist. Many of the hundreds of people Bevin pardoned were related to donors to his political campaigns. In 2018, Baker’s brother, Eric Baker, and his sister-in-law hosted a fundraiser for Bevin at their home and raised more than $20,000. The couple also donated $4,000 to Bevin separately.at the time that a decision to issue pardons on those grounds “shocks the conscience.
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