The right to pardon vs. The right to terminate legal proceedings.

Reflections of analphabet in jurisprudence on the topic of resolving a legal incident.

In many countries, there is such a legal concept: the right to pardon. This means that the governor of a state (in the USA), for example, can use his authority to PARDON a person convicted by a court or even “under-convicted”, but only the accused.

In other countries, and in the USA too, the president has such a right. So, President Clinton pardoned himself for the criminal offense of lying to a Grand Jury.

But, let’s say, a fairly common case in practice is when certain authorities want to present an innocent person as a criminal and send him to prison. The court is also on the side of these very powerful interests.

Then the accused person has only one way out: To appeal to the president and submit an official petition for pardon.

But this is A VICIOUS STARTING POINT, because HE DOES NOT CONSIDER HIMSELF guilty and IS REALLY INNOCENT!

And an appeal for CLEMENCY is A FULL ADMISSION OF GUILT BY THE ACCUSED!

And the president has NO OTHER POWERS except “PARDON”!

A clear blunder by super-smart legislators! The super-wise and super-knowledgeable laws experts did not take into account THIS situation!

Therefore, it is necessary to change the essence of the concept of the president’s legal authority and give him an ADDITIONAL RIGHT besides PARDON!

Namely:

The right to TERMINATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS and release the accused from prosecution and the legal proceedings themselves! Because it is not possible to PARDON an INNOCENT PERSON or SOMEONE ACCUSED of a crime that he did not commit, but often the authorities and the system are interested in his conviction.

Thus, it is necessary to expand the legal right of the president (or, in the United States, the governor of a state) by giving them additional powers to “TERMINATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.”

Faciant meliora potentes.

3 XII 2025

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