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Who should be pardoned?
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For a start, people who actually go through the Office of the Pardon Attorney process.
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I can say with conviction that people who cook their steaks well done and eat it with ketchup should not be pardoned.
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I am hearing that there ought to be sound justification for pardon rather than simply because it can be done.
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It's my understanding that...
The proven innocent are exonerated in a court of law. Their convictions are vacated. They don't need to be pardoned.
Neither the President nor a Governor pardons those exonerated of a crime.
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I think you might be right. However, from wiki: Pardon - Wikipedia
"In the United States, the pardon power for offenses against the United States is granted to the President of the United States under Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution which states that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment".
So I think I'm wrong in saying it's for those who have been proved to be innocent. But to whom it can be granted and why seems to vary from country to country.
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And to expand, "new evidence" in this case means evidence that wasn't available at the time of the trial, not just evidence that wasn't found or presented. That's why so many of the cases handled by the Innocence Project are reliant on DNA, because the tech didn't exist back then and thus wasn't an option. That and Constitutional defects are the only way to over turn a verdict. Let's say somebody snitched on you and you were convicted based on that testimony. They then later admit they lied and did it themselves. You are still locked up.
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Not "actual innocence", proven to be innocent by a court, by judicial action.
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Hopefully, all are actually innocent as well as legally found innocent.
I believe that in most cases this must be true considering they have been convicted, sentenced, and usually imprisoned and only found innocent after undeniable proof that they are. Today it's usually DNA that is proving innocence.
Back to the topic, they aren't pardoned by anyone. Most often, they are exonerated and their conviction vacated. A very famous case is the Central Park Five case.
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