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23 Mar 2013, 2:12 am
When granted, it is the determination of the ultimate authority that the publicwelfare will be better served by inflicting less than what the judgment fixed (Biddle v. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 5:49 pm
Then began a reversal of the so-called “acceptance doctrine” in Biddle v Perovich (274 US 480) when it declared that the commutation of a death sentence to a life sentence could not be refused: “A pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 6:00 am
It is an act for which he or she is accountable under the Constitution: As Justice Holmes stated almost a century ago in Biddle v. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 4:30 am
This vision of the pardon power has not been universal in the court’s history: In Biddle v. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 2:11 pm
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted in Biddle v. [read post]
