Four decades later, The Doors' Jim Morrison wins pardon

40 years after his conviction, Jim Morrison, charge singer with the Doors, was posthumously pardoned Thursday for his alleged indecent exposure in a Florida concert in March 1961.

The Florida Board of Executive Clemency voted unanimously to pardon Morrison, who had been still appealing the verdict when he died suddenly in Paris in 1971.

Morrison's widow, Patricia Kennealy Morrison, had opposed the pardon on the understanding that Morrison never exposed himself for the crowd as prosecutors alleged.

'Since the initial charges and trial were a publicity stunt in the first place, it won't surprise me in any way how the pardon should follow in those footsteps,' she told CNN. Her husband 'did absolutely nothing to be pardoned for' and the record needs to have been expunged, Patricia Morrison said.

'Despite the fact there have been 10,000 people within the hall that night, funny thing, nobody includes a picture from the actual exposure with the Lizard King's lizard,' said Morrison, utilizing a popular nickname for that notorious rocker.

The pardon was championed by outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist who said the conviction must have been dismissed after Morrison's death 'so he was again presumed innocent.'

'A pardon corrects the fact Mr Morrison is currently not able to use the presumption of innocence this is the cornerstone from the American criminal justice system,' Crist said inside a statement following the vote.