Mark Wahlberg has dropped his bid to be pardoned for his 1988 assault conviction
The actor - who applied for the pardon in 2014 - was 16 years old when he hit a Vietnamese man in the head with a stick while trying to steal alcohol and served 45 days of his two-year sentence in an adult prison.
However, a Massachusetts Parole Board spokesman told the New York Post's Page Six that the 45-year-old actor "did not respond to a letter asking if he wished to keep his petition open, so the matter has been closed".
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Mark had applied to the Governor of Massachusetts for a pardon insisting he is a model citizen compared to the troubled individual he was at the time the attack took place.