"There is no joy in a conviction," said the Stevens County prosecutor, Tim Rasmussen.
"Both are delightful singers, each acts out the part admirably, bringing vitality and conviction," said one critic.
"As a result of the pardon, there is no conviction," said the soldier's lawyer, James D. Harmon Jr.
His conviction, said Chin, allowed him to take life "one battle at a time".
"Tricking the government to steal public housing subsidies is a fruitless endeavor with a high price — arrest, prosecution and conviction," said Rose Gill Hearn, the department's commissioner.
Karla Solorio, 26, serving time for a drug conviction, said that she often cried at night thinking of her 7-year-old son.
The law allows victims to sue for money, but only after a conviction, said Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the state's Office of Victim Services.
Mr. Zhao first vowed to fight his conviction, said he would go on a hunger strike and signed legal forms for an appeal.
"The viewers are the ones with the most conviction," said Jean-Yves Dormagen of the University of Montpellier 1. "They are not the undecided".
"We need a conviction," said Marion Gray-Hopkins, the mother of Gary Hopkins, a college student who was killed by police 1999.
"The D.A.'s office knows that was an illegal conviction," said Derrick Hamilton, the former jailhouse lawyer who wrote the motion.
