“As for Arpiao’s request to throw out the conviction, the pardon makes that moot as well. He accepted the pardon so he accepts the conviction that makes the pardon necessary.”
You obviously don’t know Sheriff Arpaio and didn’t read the Arizona Phoenix article. Appaio will appeal his conviction just like the two senior FBI officials pardoned by President Reagan successfully did. One of them, Mark Felt, was “Deep Throat, and Nixon came to his defense on the pardon issue even knowing Felt had done him in!
See Wiki on Mark Felt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt
“Despite their pardons, Felt and Miller won permission from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to appeal the conviction so as to remove it from their record and to prevent it from being used in civil suits by the victims of the break-ins they ordered.[66] Ultimately, Felt’s law license was returned by the court in 1982, which cited Reagan’s pardon.”