· 6/28/1990
United States v. Gregory Paul Noonan
Citations
- 906 F.2d 952
- 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 10561
- 1990 WL 86905
How courts have described this case
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- finding that Garland’s language was clearly dictum and holding that “a pardon does not vitiate guilt”
- finding that Garland’s language was clearly dictum and holding that “a pardon does not vitiate guilt”
- concluding that a pardon can only remove the punishment for a crime, not the fact of the crime itself, and holding that the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Burdick implicitly rejected its prior sweeping conception of the pardoning power in Garland
- characterizing Garland 's \blots out\ statement as dictum rejected by Burdick
- despite Presidential pardon, court refused to expunge record of conviction of Military Selective Service Act violation where “no challenge to the conviction itself is made”
- though an “extreme” remedy, “a federal court has the inherent power to expunge an arrest and conviction record.”
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Judges: Cowen, Nygaard, Aldisert
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