Bid to pardon Jim Morrison

Florida governor Charlie Crist said he was seriously thinking about pardoning dead rock star Jim Morrison for the singer’s 1970 indecent exposure and profanity conviction stemming from a Miami concert the year before.

On Morrison, who died aged 27, he said: “That’s really a kid, when you think about it, and obviously he was having some challenges. There’s some dispute about how solid the case was.”