Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Marcus Page, who served in the U.S. Marines, was sentenced to three years of probation and 240 days in jail for the transport or sale of a controlled substance in San Diego County Superior Court ...
California has several post-conviction remedies that are sometimes called expungement. [11] For misdemeanor and felony crimes (not involving a sentence in state prison), a petition for expungement is filed in the court of conviction, seeking to have the conviction dismissed pursuant to Penal Code section 1203.4.
Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or to private civil lawsuits. [40] Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board. [1] The president's power to grant pardons explicitly does not apply "in cases of impeachment." This means that the ...
Since 1853, the responsibility of advising the president on pardon petitions has been assigned to the attorney general. Over time, various offices have supported this role in managing the clemency process, including the Office of the Pardon Clerk (1865–1870), the Office of the Attorney in Charge of Pardons (1891–1894).
A smattering of controversial pardons has become common near the end of a term. Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich , whose ex-wife Denise had given $200,000 to the Democratic Party ...
Biden announces commutations, pardons: President Joe Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people A commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency ...
This category is being considered for merging into Category:Recipients of American presidential pardons. This nomination is part of a discussion of several related categories. This does not mean that any of the pages in the category will be deleted.
The pool of potential pardon candidates could be small and apply only to elderly LGTBQ people; California repealed a law that made consensual gay sex a crime in 1975. But activists say the program ...