If Gov. Hochul is in the gift-giving mood this holiday season, she might consider packaging a pardon for a lifelong New Yorker who has paid for his crime a dozen times over.
Last year, an immigration judge ordered Pascal Charpentier deported to Haiti based on a decades-old conviction and the unjust allegation that he’s not a U.S. citizen.
But Charpentier, who lives in Queens Village, is not from Haiti, and has never set foot in the country.
In 1972, Charpentier was born to a U.S. military family on a U.S. military base in Germany during the Vietnam War. He and his family returned to New York when the boy was just 3 months old. His parents have Haitian roots.
The deportation order stems from an arrest that occurred when Charpentier was a teen.
At 18, Charpentier was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in the notorious 1990 murder of a Utah tourist who was........