Sentence examples for former pardon from inspiring English sources

"Then the F.B.I. would cut off the background investigation and end it," said Mr. Stanish, the former pardon attorney.

The former pardon attorney, Deborah Leff, resigned in January citing a lack of resources and direct access to the White House counsel which she feared would result "in the requests of thousands of petitioners seeking justice [going] unheard".

Mr. Rich, through his lawyer, Mr. Quinn, the former White House counsel, began pushing for a pardon, something that former pardon lawyers said was exceptional, since he remained a fugitive.

Margaret C. Love, the former pardon attorney in the Justice Department, a nonpartisan post, and an authority on the pardon power, said it would have been customary in such a circumstance to provide a commutation of sentence.

Such episodes hampered the presidential ambitions of Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, and, most notoriously, Michael Dukakis, who supported a furlough programme that went sour.But such reticence only makes matters worse, argues Margaret Love, a former "pardon attorney" to presidents George Bush senior and Bill Clinton.

A former pardon office lawyer said some applicants have been turned down "en masse" with little, if any, review, a claim the Justice Department disputes.

Margaret Colgate Love, a former United States pardon lawyer who now represents clemency seekers, including 2 of the 17 people who received pardons on Friday, said she was pleased that Mr. Obama had quickly granted a number in his second term and hoped he would do so more regularly in coming years.

Margaret Colgate Love, a former United States pardon attorney who now represents clemency seekers, said she was pleased the wait was over.

"If clemency is not the entire answer to the systemic problem of excessive sentences," former US pardon attorney Margaret Love wrote in Crime Report, "it can still serve its time-honored function of pointing the way to a resolution through the legal system".

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Beginning last fall, the notion began to circulate among potential applicants that the White House might be receptive to direct proposals for pardons, said current and former government officials, pardon applicants and lawyers.