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A New York man who has spent nearly four years behind bars on federal charges tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot got his trial pushed back Tuesday after arguing President-elect Donald Trump ...
Rebecca Lavrenz, known on social media as the "J6 Praying Grandma", also declined her pardon, stating that she planned to appeal her case and get her criminal record cleared. Lavrenz was convicted of four misdemeanor charges and sentenced to a year of probation, including six months of house arrest, as well as being ordered to pay a $103,000 fine.
Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. ... with criminal charges against more than 1,500 people and criminal convictions against more than 1,100 ...
Many of those who received pardons had long ago completed their sentences, but the crimes will now be wiped from their records. ... was 21 when he was sentenced to 10 years for drug and gun ...
Though pardons have been challenged in the courts, and the power to grant them challenged by Congress, the courts have consistently declined to put limits on the president's discretion. The president can issue a full pardon, reversing a criminal conviction (along with its legal effects) as if it never happened.
President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...
A post on X says that President Joe Biden granted clemency to an CCP agent that was caught with 47,000 files of child pornography. Verdict: Misleading The man was deported as part of a prisoner ...
Since 1853, the responsibility of advising the president on pardon petitions has been assigned to the attorney general. Over time, various offices have supported this role in managing the clemency process, including the Office of the Pardon Clerk (1865–1870), the Office of the Attorney in Charge of Pardons (1891–1894).