Missouri governor declines to give specifics on Britt Reid's commutation - ESPN

One week after he commuted the drunk driving sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, Missouri Governor Mike Parson declined to offer specifics about his decision.

In a statement to ESPN, the governor's office said, «No request, official or otherwise, was made on behalf of Mr. Reid for this commutation.» A spokesman for the office declined to comment beyond the statement.

Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, served 16 months of a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to felony driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury. According to prosecutors, Reid was driving about 84 mph in a 65-mph zone when he hit two parked cars near Arrowhead Stadium in February 2021. Six people were injured, including then-5-year-old Ariel Young, who suffered a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for 11 days. She was hospitalized for two months following the crash.

Reid admitted to having «two or three» drinks and had a blood alcohol level of 0.113% approximately two hours after the crash, according to police. The legal limit in Missouri is 0.08%.

Typically, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections, applicants for executive clemency, which includes a commutation of sentence, submit a request to the Missouri Parole Board, which investigates the request and makes a recommendation to the governor. The governor issues a final decision on the application and may also grant clemency unilaterally.

Neither the governor's office nor the Parole Board immediately released documents related to Reid's commutation. The governor's office indicated it had nearly 200 pages of documents related to the case but is reviewing whether they can make them public and won't release any before April