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He can be pardoned without being convicted: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/07/preemptive_presidential_pardons.html http://www.s

• rprasad 14y ago
  That Slate article doesn't say what you think it says. A pre-emptive pardon can only be issued for someone in danger of being convicted of a crime; it is essentially a grant of immunity. A dead defendant who was merely charged with a crime can never be convicted of the crime, so a dead defendant cannot be pre-emptively pardoned.
• Permit 14y ago
  They have to be alive.