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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: xuenchen
Flynn withdrew the plea bargain and showed coercion.
He still has to allocute his guilt, again, for the 3rd time, if he wants that pardon. Pardons are only for guilty people.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: xuenchen
Flynn withdrew the plea bargain and showed coercion.
He still has to allocute his guilt, again, for the 3rd time, if he wants that pardon. Pardons are only for guilty people.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: xuenchen
Flynn withdrew the plea bargain and showed coercion.
He still has to allocute his guilt, again, for the 3rd time, if he wants that pardon. Pardons are only for guilty people.
Find that law or case law, please.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: projectvxn
Find that law or case law, please.
Find what? That pardons are for guilty people? Or that his case before Judge Sullivan still has to be resolved to reflect Flynn's guilt?
originally posted by: operation mindcrime
a reply to: projectvxn
He's way more fun when he is drinking...
He also said something about Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915) blabla delivery and acceptance were essential components of a pardon...
Peace
Find what?
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: projectvxn
Find that law or case law, please.
Find what? That pardons are for guilty people? Or that his case before Judge Sullivan still has to be resolved to reflect Flynn's guilt?
Also for people wrongly convicted 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here’s the Supreme Court’s explanation for why a pardon can be refused but immunity cannot be:
This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it. The former has no such imputation or confession. It is tantamount to the silence of the witness. It is noncommittal. It is the unobtrusive act of the law given protection against a sinister use of his testimony, not like a pardon, requiring him to confess his guilt in order to avoid a conviction of it.
Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that: A pardoned person must introduce the pardon into court proceedings, otherwise the pardon must be disregarded by the court. To do this, the pardoned person must accept the pardon. If a pardon is rejected, it cannot be forced upon its subject.
A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: projectvxn
Find that law or case law, please.
Find what? That pardons are for guilty people? Or that his case before Judge Sullivan still has to be resolved to reflect Flynn's guilt?
Also for people wrongly convicted 🤣🤣🤣🤣
A pardon does NOT overturn a guilty conviction. It forgives the guilty.
A full pardon will expunge the conviction and wipe the slate clean.
As these opinions confirm, a presidential pardon removes, either conditionally or unconditionally, the punitive legal consequences that would otherwise flow from conviction for the pardoned offense. A pardon, however, does not erase the conviction as a historical fact or justify the fiction that the pardoned individual did not engage in criminal conduct. A pardon, therefore, does not by its own force expunge judicial or administrative records of the conviction or underlying offense.