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Originally Posted by Swift
It does seem bizarre. Theoretically you could hire someone to take out your ex-wife, a political opponent or a journalist and then pardon them a year later.
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Pardons (by the President) have no effect for State-levied charges and convictions.
As such, since most manslaughter/murder charges are brought at the state level, any pardon would be of limited value.
Unless the governor was the one who issued the pardon, I guess.
But then you’d potentially get into obstruction of justice issues, so I’d think such a scenario would be extremely unlikely to occur.