Mark Wahlberg has ended his bid for a pardon for assaults he committed as a teenager in MA.
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Marky Mark’s past is still following him.
However, a Massachusetts Parole Board spokesman told the New York Post’s Page Six that the 45-year-old actor “did not respond to a letter asking if he wished to keep his petition open, so the matter has been closed”.
Judith Beals, who prosecuted the case, stated in an op-ed piece that she saw “no reason why that history should be erased from the public record through a pardon”. Therefore, his request for pardon has been dropped. Wahlberg spent 45 days of a two-year sentence in prison for the felony.
Though Wahlberg was 16 at the time of the attack, he was tried as an adult and charged with attempted murder, but ultimately pleaded guilty to assault.
At the NY premiere of “The Gambler” in December 2014, Wahlberg told the Associated Press that he was seeking the pardon for multiple reasons but in “no way, shape or form” did he think his celebrity alone was a reason for it to be granted. Speaking to The Wrap yesterday, Wahlberg acknowledged that the request was ill-advised.
Mark adds that he didn’t need an official paper to prove he has learned from his mistakes and has endeavored to right the wrongs he committed in 1988.
“It was one of those things where it was just kind of presented to me, and if I could’ve done it over again I would never have focused on that or applied”, he told the site. The pardon request, met with protests from the Massachusetts Asian American community, was something Wahlberg was pressed into doing, says the actor.
Initially, Wahlberg was accused of beating Trinh so badly that he ended up losing sight in one eye, but later investigations discovered that the blindness actually stemmed from injuries Trinh suffered a decade earlier. “Some good did come out of it”.
Mark previously said getting the pardon was important to him because it would be proof of how he has successfully rehabilitated himself as a person.
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