To: DoodleDawg
Accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
Complete BS. Accepting a pardon for a wrongful conviction is not admitting guilt. It was a political witch hunt, plane and simple; That is why Trump pardoned him.
14 posted on
04/18/2018 3:44:56 PM PDT by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: JoSixChip
"Complete BS. Accepting a pardon for a wrongful conviction is not admitting guilt. It was a political witch hunt, plane and simple; That is why Trump pardoned him."
And it's why he pardoned Scooter Libby too.
18 posted on
04/18/2018 3:46:12 PM PDT by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: JoSixChip
Complete BS. Accepting a pardon for a wrongful conviction is not admitting guilt. It was a political witch hunt, plane and simple; That is why Trump pardoned him. "This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it. The former has no such imputation or confession. It is tantamount to the silence of the witness. It is noncommittal. It is the unobtrusive act of the law given protection against a sinister use of his testimony, not like a pardon, requiring him to confess his guilt in order to avoid a conviction of it." - Burdick v. U.S. (236 U.S. 79)
Call it a wrongful conviction if you want. Witch hunt, whatever. By accepting the pardon Arpiao admitted his guilt. Plain and simple.
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