{"id":357971,"date":"2025-12-19T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:42:12","slug":"jelly-roll-receives-full-pardon-in-tennessee-for-past-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357971\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll Receives Full Pardon in Tennessee for Past Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCountry music star Jelly Roll has been granted a full pardon<\/a> from Governor Bill Lee in Tennessee for his past crimes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer, whose real name is Jason DeFord, was among 33 people who received pardons from Lee on Thursday, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. The 41-year-old was convicted of robbery when he was 17 after he stole $350 from people in a home in 2002, which led to his arrest and a sentence of one year in prison plus probation. Later, in 2008, police discovered marijuana and crack cocaine in his car, leading to eight years of court-ordered supervision.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis story is remarkable, and it\u2019s a redemptive, powerful story, which is what you look for and what you hope for,\u201d Lee told reporters.<\/p>\n

\n\tJelly Roll<\/a>, who began petitioning the Board of Parole last October, was hoping for a pardon to loosen the restrictions that came with his convictions. He said the pardon would allow him to travel internationally on tour and perform Christian missionary work without requiring paperwork. A pardon in Tennessee also allows for some civil rights to be restored, including the right to vote.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Nashville native spent years discussing his redemption arc, speaking with prisoners and testifying to the U.S. Senate about the dangers of fentanyl and reflecting on his past drug-dealing persona as \u201cthe uneducated man in the kitchen playing chemist with drugs I knew absolutely nothing about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was a part of the problem,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI am here now standing as a man that wants to be a part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music star Jelly Roll has been granted a full pardon from Governor Bill Lee in Tennessee for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,36085],"class_list":{"0":"post-357971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jelly-roll"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}