By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The time to hesitate is through, no time to wallow in the mire: Florida’s outgoing governor wants to posthumously pardon rock ‘n’ roll wild man Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors who was famously convicted of exposing himself at an anarchic 1969 concert in Miami.
Gov. Charlie Crist, a 54-year-old baby boomer and Morrison fan whose favorite Doors song is “Light My Fire,” said the evidence that Morrison unzipped his pants was flimsy and prosecutors were trying to make an example of the singer, whose on-stage excesses and appetite for sex and drugs were legendary.