Regulations last checked for updates: May 08, 2024

Title 28 - Judicial Administration last revised: May 03, 2024
§ 1.2 - Eligibility for filing petition for pardon.

No petition for pardon should be filed until the expiration of a waiting period of at least five years after the date of the release of the petitioner from confinement or, in case no prison sentence was imposed, until the expiration of a period of at least five years after the date of the conviction of the petitioner. Generally, no petition should be submitted by a person who is on probation, parole, or supervised release.

authority: U.S. Const., Art. II, sec. 2; authority of the President as Chief Executive; and 28 U.S.C. 509,510
source: Order No. 1798-93, 58 FR 53658, Oct. 18, 1993, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 28 CFR 1.2