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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:56:34 -0800 (PST) From: Richard N Rosenfeld <richardnrosenfeld@yahoo.com> I think Nickolas Kyser's observation is correct, though I was using "pardon" in a broader sense. Duane was also under indictment by the Senate for breach of privilege (and contempt, as I recall). In any event, Jefferson wrote William Duane on May 23, 1801: "I asked if you could give me a list of the prosecutions of a public nature against you & over which I might have a controul; observing that whenever in the line of my functions I should be met by the Sedition law, I should treat it as a nullity. That therefore, even in the prosecution recommended by the Senate, if founded on that law, I would order a nolle prosequi..." Richard Rosenfeld Gloucester
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