People v. Chiappa

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the guilt of the defendant is absolved by pardon ... where the same states that it is based upon the innocence of the defendant”
• noting that a general pardon “is an act of forgiveness, not forgetfulness”
• indicating that only when the deed of pardon itself states that the pardon is for innocence will the convict be absolved of guilt and permitted to proceed with a direct appeal of his conviction
• “at least in the State of Illinois the guilt of the defendant is absolved by a pardon only where the same states that it is based upon the innocence of the defendant”
• \at least in the State of Illinois the guilt of the defendant is absolved by a pardon only where the same states that is based upon the innocence of the defendant\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).