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 The second-best thing about having a governor for a dad is getting into all the fancy parties. The first-best thing is having him pardon you for drug charges you racked up in your early 20s. 
 
 CNN reports that Arkansas governor Mike Beebe plans to pardon his own son, 34-year-old Kyle Beebe, who was arrested in 2003 for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. He received a fine and three years’ probation, but a pardon would scrub the offense from his record. The governor has already granted over 700 pardons during his tenure, mostly for nonviolent offenses. 
 
 “Mr. Governor, I am asking for a second chance at life. I am asking for a second chance to be the man that I know that I can be,” Kyle Beebe wrote in a letter asking for the pardon. 
 
 Also, dad, you totally promised you would do this for me if I didn’t tell mom that it was really you who scratched the Range Rover! he added. ||||| Story highlights Kyle Beebe was charged with possession of a controlled substance in 2003 
 
 He was fined and sentenced to three years supervised probation 
 
 Gov. Mike Beebe said his son has grown up a lot in the past decade 
 
 The governor has pardoned more than 700 offenders 
 
 (CNN) Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe plans to pardon his son for a felony drug charge from more than a decade ago. 
 
 "It will probably be in the next few weeks," said Matt DeCample, a spokesman for the governor. 
 
 "For any pardons the governor does the person has to have finished all terms of their sentence ... and then had a period of time where they've shown they have straightened their lives out." 
 
 Kyle Beebe, who is now 34, was charged in 2003 with possession of a controlled substance -- marijuana -- with intent to deliver. He was fined and sentenced to three years supervised probation, according to CNN affiliate KATV 
 
 The Arkansas Parole Board recommended the pardon last month. It came after Kyle Beebe wrote a lengthy letter to the governor in his pardon application. 
 
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– The worst thing about having a famous and powerful dad? The extra notoriety surrounding your marijuana conviction. The best? Having dad make said marijuana conviction go away. Such is the case of Kyle Beebe, the 34-year-old son of Mike Beebe, who happens to be governor of Arkansas and as such plans to pardon his son for his 2003 conviction of marijuana possession with intent to deliver. To be fair, the younger Beebe paid a fine, served three years' probation, and wrote a lengthy letter making his case, reports CNN. "Mr. Governor, I am asking for a second chance at life," wrote Kyle Beebe. "I am asking for a second chance to be the man that I know that I can be." Kyle Beebe also has the state parole board's backing. Says his dad: "I would have done it a long time ago if he'd have asked, but he took his sweet time about asking. He was embarrassed. He's still embarrassed, and frankly, I was embarrassed and his mother was embarrassed." Snarks New York mag, while noting that the pardon will scrub Beebe's record clean: "Also, dad, you totally promised you would do this for me if I didn't tell mom that it was really you who scratched the Range Rover!" The elder Beebe has issued some 700 pardons, the majority of which are for nonviolent offenders.