The king claims he had no idea of Galvan's crimes and would have never pardoned him had he been aware.
Some will never pardon the theatrics that cost Laurent Blanc his place in the 1998 World Cup final.
He is serving a 25-year jail sentence for authorising the creation of a death squad, and was hospitalised in August to remove lesions in his mouth he says were caused by cancer.Mr Fujimori has insisted he would never seek a pardon, since that would imply an admission of guilt.
Six years later, in the wake of a petition launched by Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso, the French president, Vincent Auriol, granted Genet – by now the author of five novels, three plays and numerous poems – a full and irrevocable pardon; he would never again be sent to prison.
Only when Sanger pledged that Byrne would never break the law, she was pardoned after ten days.
And returning to politics -- despite his promise to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo when she pardoned him in 2007 that he would never again seek elective office -- is a chance to take care of unfinished business.
As Yale law professor Jack Balkin explained, immunity is crucial to the administration because, unlike the pardon power, it ensures that executive conduct would never even come "to light in any court of law".
"They pardon Chávez's relationship with the Castros, because it's clear that Chávez would never let himself be manipulated by them".
Against Byrne's wishes, Sanger, hoping to save her sister's life, made a deal with the governor of New York; he issued a pardon for Byrne on the condition that Sanger promise that her sister would never again participate in the birth-control movement.
