A Pardon for an Antique Crime
“Misprision of felony” is failure to report a felony committed by someone else. It is not a crime in most states, either abolished long ago or never a crime in the first place, but it curiously survives in the federal criminal code. In 1998, Edward DeBartolo, then owner of the SF 49s, pled guilty to this crime as part of a deal. Today, President Trump pardoned him, Catherine Lucey reports in the WSJ.
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