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· 5/7/1970

People Ex Rel. Symonds v. Gualano

Citations

  • 260 N.E.2d 284
  • 124 Ill. App. 2d 208
  • 1970 Ill. App. LEXIS 1488

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that gubernatorial pardon removed the defendant’s ineligibility to hold public office because of prior convictions
  • holding that gubernatorial pardon removed the defendant's ineligibility to hold public office because of prior convictions
  • constitutional power of governor to grant pardons is not abridged by constitutional provision making persons convicted of infamous crimes ineligible to run for public office
  • “It was the manifest purpose of those who designed our constitutional framework to give the governor full and untrammeled discretion in ... restoring the rights of citizenship.”

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Judges: Dempsey

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