Burdick v. United States
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burdick-v-united-states-314-3180639
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Burdick v. United States
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Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that: A pardoned person must introduce the pardon into court proceedings, otherwise the pardon must be disregarded by the court.
To do that, the pardoned person must accept the pardon. If a pardon is rejected, it cannot be forced upon its subject. United States v. Wilson (1833) established that it is possible to reject a (conditional) pardon, even for a capital sentence. Burdick affirmed
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1915 United States Supreme Court case
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