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Re:Prosecutor as bully by btilly on Saturday January 12, 2013 @08:47PM (#5049647)
it is legally impossible to grant a pardon when someone has not been convicted (or plead guilty to) a crime to finality (i.e., the exhaustion of appeals).

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_4311 is a famous example disproving that.

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