(March 22, 2024, 8:58 AM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A legal collective has sent a letter to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. seeking a pardon for embattled environmental attorney Steven R. Donziger, who was embroiled in a litigation saga related to an $18.5 billion verdict he obtained against Chevron Corp. for its pollution of indigenous communities in Ecuador, arguing that he was subject to arbitrary detention for 993 days on a Class B misdemeanor contempt charge prosecuted by a private law firm working for Chevron after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to pursue the case....