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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by bena on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:14PM (#39854560)
The "state" being the federal government in this case and not any individual state. The president cannot pardon state-level offenses, that is at the discretion of that state.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by eadmund on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:35PM (#39854876)
Yup! I probably should have capitalised it as ‘State’ to prevent confusion.
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