Yes by judicial precedent. Quoting Wikipedia’s article on federal pardons in the United States: According to Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, writing the majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States, a pardon is “an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it.”
A pardon issued and accepted (United States v. Wilson set the precedent that a pardon may be rejected by the intended recipient) does not erase an indictment or conviction. Pardoning a convict ends any prison sentence, fine or other punishment but does not erase felon status. For that you need an expungement.
Note: One does not need to be convicted for the president to issue a pardon. A pardon can end a trial before it begins.
Accepting a pardon does permanently satisfy one’s fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. In that way it’s kind of like pleading guilty and being sentenced to reading this piece of paper from the White House. You can’t be tried and punished for this same crime, which means you CAN be compelled to testify about it.
Almost all of my memory of the original Avatar:
I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time, and she kept reaching into our bag of popcorn, getting engrossed in the movie and just leaving her hand in there, so if I wanted popcorn I’d scritch at her wrist with my fingertips.
There’s a point in the movie where it does this big heavy fade to black. It’s near or beyond the midpoint of the film, and someone in the theater said “Act two.” and half the audience cracked up.
Jake Sooolly.
People talk about the spectacular CG effects, I really only remember one scene, Native Chick takes Jake Sooolly for a walk in the woods at night and everything’s glowing. That scene was striking. Most of the rest of the movie is stored in my brain as visual sludge.
I also remember the news talking about people being upset that they couldn’t be tall sexy blue cat people.