Robert Downey, Jr., pardoned for his drug conviction from the 1990s, the decade that notoriously made the 50-year-old star go from promising actor to Hollywood bad boy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Downey, Jr. was one of 91 people given a full pardon by California governor Jerry Brown.
Robert Downey Jr.is getting a big Christmas present. While a pardon won’t erase one’s criminal history, it does restore an individual’s right to vote, according to the governor’s website.
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The then 31-year-old Downey Jr was arrested on narcotics charge in 1996, he passed out in a neighbour’s bedroom which he mistook for his apartment in Malibu.
Downey pleaded no contest – the equivalent of a guilty plea in Calif. – to possession of cocaine, driving under the influence, carrying a hid weapon in a vehicle & being under the influence of heroin. He spent almost a year in prison in 1999 after violating his probation. The pardons are granted to individuals “who have demonstrated exemplary behavior and have lived productive and law-abiding lives following their conviction”, Brown said. “Pardons are not granted unless they are earned.”
The Sherlock Holmes star, who was last seen in Marvel’s Avenger’s: Age of Ultron, will be seen reprising the character of Tony Stark/Iron Man in 2016 in Captain America: Civil War.
