Outgoing Florida governor seeks pardon for Doors frontman Morrison

Outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist is looking to pardon long-dead rocker Jim Morrison, who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous concert in Miami in 1969.

Outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist is looking to pardon long-dead rocker Jim Morrison, who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous concert in Miami in 1969.

Morrison was lead singer with top 1960s rock band The Doors and a Florida native. He was appealing against his conviction for indecent exposure and profanity when he died in a Paris bathtub in 1971 at the age of 27.

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