Man tries to pardon himself by forging a letter from the West Virginia governor - but it's riddled with grammatical errors, the name of the state is spelled wrong and the phone number is handwritten James Justice II, 49, is accused of forging a letter from West Virginia's governor The fake letter pardoned Justice II for all probation and his past crimes The letter was rife with spelling and grammatical errors and had two fake seals The governor's office said that Justice II had not, in fact, been pardoned Convicted burglar Justice II now faces charges of forgery of public record and forgery of official sealsBy Maxine Shen For Dailymail.com Published: 03:32 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 03:39 GMT, 4 March 2019 1 Viewcomments A West Virginia man is accused of faking a pardon letter from the governor's office, but it was riddled with errors including the misspelling of the state's name. Authorities issued a warrant for James Justice II, 49, of Nitro, West Virginia, after it was discovered that he allegedly created and sent a fake letter from the West Virginia Governor's Office that pardoned him for all probation and his past crimes, WSAZ reported. Aside from the fact that the governor's office said that the actual Governor James 'Jim' Justice II, 67 — in a remarkable coincidence, the men share the same name — had not, in fact, granted a pardon for the Nitro man, the complaint noted that the forged document contained multiple errors and inconsistencies. The letter from the West Virginia governor that authorities have accused James Justice II of forging in an effort to have himself pardoned from probation and his past crimes The letter was rife with errors, including the misspelling of the state's name in the letterhead, a handwritten phone number and grammatical mistakes Just about the only thing the forger did a semi-passable job at was copying the governor's actual signature. At right, the forged signature, and at left, the governor's actual signature Coincidentally, both the accused forger and the actual West Virginia governor share the same name, James Justice II. They do not appear to be related, however Among the obvious issues were spelling errors — including the fact that West Virginia was misspelled in the letterhead — the office's phone number was handwritten and the letter in general was rife with grammatical and punctuation mistakes. The complaint also stated that Justice II's forged document had two fake West Virginia seals on it. Just about the only thing that the letter writer appeared to have managed to do a semi-decent job of was forging the governor's signature. The complaint said the letter, which was dated February 25, was sent to the Putnam County Probation office on February 27. Justice II had been convicted of burglary previously, but is now charged with forgery of public record and forgery of official seals. Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility