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· 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

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

  • 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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