Zone1 Must a Pardon be accepted, and does accepting a pardon mean, admitting guilt?

[PeterPilot]

Pardons don't work that way. The party seeking the pardon must apply. It isn't offered by either president or governor. There's no accepting guilt, merely fulfilling the requirements of asking for a pardon.

And my understanding is that a pardon can be granted only after a conviction, so "acceptance of guilt" is misused in this sense. He's already convicted, already in prison.

 

[Mr. Friscus]

pardons can let the guilty off free, or free the unfairly persecuted.

The justice system can do that as well as jail the innocent.. and that happens WAY more than is ever discussed.

Don’t blindly trust human-run institutions. There’s no reason to trust a local judges singular ruling over a presidential pardon. Shady sh*t can he going on in both instances

 

[Calypso Jones]

oh yes, i think so..Presiden Bribem is considering a pardon for fauci, schiff and cheney. They need it...they broke the law, they thumbed their noses in our faces, they withheld evidence and they tampered with witnesses. If any one needs a pardon to protect them from prosecution for their criminality...it's these three. So We should go after the other members of the J6 committee...now don't say anything...

 

[otto105]

It’s not “admitting guilt”. It’s admitting someone is the victim of a rigged and unfair “Justice system”.

Like Hunter Biden

 

[Captain Caveman]

This keeps coming up, but it has not been intelligently debated.

I say that pardon is a presidential or gubernatorial power. Therefore, any given pardon means exactly what the president or governor says that it means.

If a pardon specifically says something like “accepting this pardon is an admission of guilt” then, of course it would be. Otherwise a pardon is a pardon and nothing more.

In short, no and no.