Pardon Finalized for Jim Morrison of the Doors

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida’s Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors’ long-dead singer Thursday.

Pardon Jim Morrison, Gov. Crist

EDITOR'S NOTE: STEPHEN DAVIS IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BIOGRAPHY JIM MORRISON: LIFE, DEATH, LEGEND (2004). HIS NEW BOOK IS LZ-'75: THE LOST CHRONICLES OF LED ZEPPELIN'S 1975 AMERICAN TOUR (BOTH FROM GOTHAM).

(CNN)—︎Jim Morrison has been dead for 40 years, but he's still causing trouble.