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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
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.
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There are some jurisdictional arguments about who gets to try a person if it is both a federal crime or a state crime. I believe that you can’t be convicted by both the state and the Fed. I also believe the fed has priority.
So I would assume that Trumps argument would be that the State Crimes are actually Federal crimes which he was pardoned for and it would become a very interesting Supreme Court case.