Governor: "Appeals court ruling limits governor’s pardon power"

From Bluegrass Politics blog:

Appeals court ruling limits governor’s pardon power

By Beth Musgrave on State Government

FRANKFORT -- A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals recently ruled that a governor's power to pardon is limited to criminal cases. In a ruling released Friday, the state Court of Appeals ruled that the Executive Branch Ethics Commission could proceed in an ethics case against Basil Turbyfill even though former Gov. Ernie Fletcher had issued a pardon in a criminal case against the former director of the Governor's Office of Personnel and Efficiency. Turbyfill was one of several former Fletcher administration employees who were charged for violating the state's merit hiring laws and later pardoned by Fletcher.