These aren’t charges they’re dismissing. They’re dismissing convictions. Dismissing a conviction sounds a lot like a pardon. I didn’t know it was legally possible for a prosecutor to do that.
These people were found guilty through due process. Now the DOJ is re-writing history.
It’s possible to vacate convictions “in the interests of justice” - think someone on death row with exculpatory evidence found years later and a prosecutor mature enough to admit they made a mistake. Or in this case a corrupt DOJ and a corrupt court system working in concert.
These aren’t charges they’re dismissing. They’re dismissing convictions. Dismissing a conviction sounds a lot like a pardon. I didn’t know it was legally possible for a prosecutor to do that.
These people were found guilty through due process. Now the DOJ is re-writing history.
It’s possible to vacate convictions “in the interests of justice” - think someone on death row with exculpatory evidence found years later and a prosecutor mature enough to admit they made a mistake. Or in this case a corrupt DOJ and a corrupt court system working in concert.
None of this should be working like this.