Combat veteran convicted for hitting someone in the nose; Scott Walker is not issuing pardons [View all]
he transition from decorated Iraq War veteran to felon happened in an instant for Eric Pizer.
A night of drinking. One punch. A broken nose. A felony charge.
Pizer wishes he could take back that moment in 2004 just two days after he returned to Wisconsin from the war.
He can’t......
During his four years in the Marines, the 6-foot-2 former high school wrestler and football player excelled, earning two commendations and the rank of corporal.
Pizer served two tours of duty, one in Kuwait and one in Iraq. During that deployment, he faced peril on refueling missions from bombs hidden along the roads and from rocket-propelled grenades fired into the Al Asad Airbase, where he was stationed.
One night, Pizer said, a grenade hit the wall just outside his tent, blasting him out of his bunk.
His second deployment was voluntary, said Tim Woods, a fellow Marine who is now an officer for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department in Bridgeton, N.J....
The only option Pizer and his attorneys see now is for Walker or a future governor to issue a pardon. That action would not erase the conviction but would restore Pizer’s right to possess a firearm, which he needs to become a police officer.
But the governor, who has sole discretion over pardons, is not accepting any applications.
Pizer and his advocates haven’t applied for a pardon but stand ready to do so if Walker changes his mind.
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