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One of the death row inmates pardoned last year by...

One of the death row inmates pardoned last year by former Governor George Ryan is facing drug charges for the 2nd time in 5 months

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One of the death row inmates pardoned last year by former Governor George Ryan is facing drug charges for the 2nd time in 5 months. Today, a Cook County judge set Leroy Orange's bail at 80,000 dollars. He's charged with possession of a controlled substance. Authorities say the 52-year-old Orange was arrested June Tenth after he was spotted sitting in a car and trying to load a glass pipe with a white, rocklike substance. At the time of his arrest, Orange was free on $20,000 bail on a charge of dealing crack cocaine on Chicago's South Side. Orange was sentenced to death in 1985 for the fatal stabbings of his former girlfriend, her son and 2 others. In pardoning Orange, Ryan said he'd been "wrongfully prosecuted."
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  • (Sources: Associated Press)