130 N.J. Super. 21 - In Re Application for Pistol Permit’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2004
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Garland · United States v. Sisson · United States v. George Wilson · Burdick v. United States · Alexander v. New Jersey Power & Light Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“While a pardon may restore to a convicted felon his rights of citizenship and remove all penalties and legal disabilities, it cannot and does not substitute a good reputation for one that is bad; it does not obliterate the fact of the commission of the crime; it does not wash out the moral stain; it involves the forgiveness and not forgetfulness and it does not `wipe the slate clean.' (citations omitted) A pardon `does not close the judicial eye to the fact that once he had done an act which constituted the offense.' (citations omitted) It does not restore his character and does not obliterate the act itself. [ Id. at 202 , 230 A. 2d 508 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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