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Just to be clear, a pardon does not expunge or erase one's criminal record. > life in prison was too harsh, but a full pardon is too lenient. I think you shou
by WaitWaitWha 2y ago
Just to be clear, a pardon does not expunge or erase one's criminal record.
> life in prison was too harsh, but a full pardon is too lenient.
I think you should compare it as: life in prison was too harsh, but 10 years is too lenient.
- larkost 2y agoThe idea of a pardon is exactly that: it erases the record of the crime/conviction. I think you are thinking of a commutation. That ends the punishment while not absolving the person of the crime. So the January 6th criminals who got pardons no longer have a criminal record (on this count at least). The 14 people who were only granted commutations are still counted as felons.
- WaitWaitWha 2y agoI must have read it incorrectly: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/2006/08/31/pardonopfinal_0.pdf https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/200... > As these opinions confirm, a presidential pardon removes, either conditionally or unconditionally, the punitive legal consequences that would otherwise flow from conviction for the pardoned offense. A pardon, however, does not erase the conviction as a historical fact or justify the fiction that the pardoned individual did not engage in criminal conduct. A pardon, therefore, does not by its own force expunge judicial or administrative records of the conviction or underlying offense.