Pardons Lawyer in Spartanburg and South Carolina

A pardon is a form of executive clemency granted by the state. It offers relief from the lasting effects of a conviction and can provide a fresh start.

A pardon is a grant by the state excusing a person convicted of a crime from its legal penalties. The original conviction remains on your criminal record, so you must still acknowledge your conviction. But a pardon restores important civil rights.

Record expungement wipes a conviction off your criminal record completely. A pardon does not remove the conviction from your record. However, it does restore civil rights that were lost due to the conviction: the right to vote, the right to hold most public offices, the right to serve on a jury, the right to resume a licensed profession, gun rights (in many cases), the right to testify in court without having evidence from your conviction presented.