First of all it was not Huckabee's mistake.
All Huckabee did was commute the sentence. It was the parole board who messed up the parole violation case in 2001.
If ya gotta gripe, blame the right people.
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But Clemmons remained on parole — and soon after landed in trouble again. In March 2001, he was accused of violating his parole by committing aggravated robbery and theft, according to a story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
He was returned to prison on a parole violation. But in what appears to have been a mistake, Clemmons was not actually served with the arrest warrants until leaving prison three years later. As a result, Clemmons' attorney argued that the charges should be dismissed because too much time had passed. Prosecutors dropped the charges.
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If the parole board had done their job right, he would have been back in the slammer.
While it could be argued that Huckabee should not have commuted the original set of sentences, that decision was overshadowed by the incompetence of the parole board/prosecutors.