re: Colorado governor pardons felon to stave off deportation

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ima-Marin's case has become a bipartisan cause celebre in Colorado, as 98 members of the state Assembly, Democrats and Republicans, called on Hickenlooper to grant him clemency.

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There's only 100 members of the State Assembly- if 98 of them are supporting one thing I think there might be bit more to the case than there seems to be at first glance.