New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday issued 33 pardons and three sentence commutations in his first act of clemency, nearly seven years after he took office.
“My only regret is we did not get to this day sooner,” Murphy said at a Trenton press conference, promising this was just the “first round” of legal relief, with more to come over his final year in office.
Murphy’s clemency action in New Jersey comes a week after President Joe Biden issued a record-setting 39 pardons and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people.