full pardon

full pardon
A pardon which remits the punishment and blots out the existence of guilt, so that in the eyes of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense. Ex parte Garland (US) 3 Wall 333, 380, 18 L Ed 366, 371.

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