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Long shot: You need to be prosecuted, otherwise you cannot be pardoned.
Long shot: You need to be prosecuted, otherwise you cannot be pardoned.
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This is not true at all.
See, e.g. the blanket pardon given to draft dodgers after the Vietnam War.
Does this explain why US presidents give retroactive pardons for their political friends, like it was Halloween candy?