To: jaydubya2
Don't you have to wait to be convicted before you can get a pardon?
17 posted on
12/22/2006 8:31:56 AM PST by
linn37
(Love your Phlebotomist)
To: linn37
"Don't you have to wait to be convicted before you can get a pardon?"
I'm not sure. Was Nixon convicted?
To: linn37
Don't you have to wait to be convicted before you can get a pardon? The answer is no. Anyone can be pardoned of crimes commited whether they have been convicted or not.
24 posted on
12/22/2006 8:36:40 AM PST by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
To: linn37
Don't you have to wait to be convicted before you can get a pardon?No, the President can issue pardons for any crimes that may have been committed.
41 pardoned Caspar Weinberger two weeks before his trial was due to begin.
47 posted on
12/22/2006 8:58:00 AM PST by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: linn37
Yes, I believe you are right. You have to be convicted first.
96 posted on
12/22/2006 4:54:17 PM PST by
Miss Marple
(Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
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