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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by clubm8 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:45PM (#19754678)
He's gotta get in line between Edward Snowden and Reality Winner
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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by nikehat on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:30AM (#19755067)
Snowden can't be pardoned since he hadn't been convicted.
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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by jlgaddis on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:31AM (#19755271)
I wasn't around then but, if I'm not mistaken, Nixon hadn't been convicted when Ford pardoned him shortly after assuming the Presidency.

ETA: According to Wikipedia [0]:

> The pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.

It seems that, in the U.S. at least, one can be preemptively pardoned.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon

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