Pardons
Pardon powers are ubiquitous but difficult to justify. A pardon power is, roughly, a power that is (a) possessed by a non-judicial official, (b) used to cancel legal liability to a criminal sanction in a particular case without thereby altering the law, and (c) unconstrained by law. This chapter pro...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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