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To: meatloaf

Can you get a pardon without a conviction?

29 posted on 04/07/2016 2:55:15 AM PDT by dougiefresh

To: dougiefresh

Nixon did.

31 posted on 04/07/2016 2:57:43 AM PDT by meatloaf

To: dougiefresh

“Can you get a pardon without a conviction?”

Sure, Nixon got a pardon for any crimes he may have committed without ever being charged, never mind convicted.

33 posted on 04/07/2016 2:59:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)

To: dougiefresh

Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford before the impeachment trial, and all further legal actions were short circuited.

37 posted on 04/07/2016 3:07:44 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)

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