My understanding is that once you’ve been pardoned, it’s treated as if the conviction never happened, so he could truthfully answer the question with a no. The process to officially clear your record is all administrative, not judicial.
This.
It’s not like everyone in America doesn’t know that Hunter plead guilty to felonies.
It’s the administrative system that requires proactive records corrections demands by the pardoned person. They don’t automatically purge court records due to a pardon.
In some aspects the records will always remain active. It’s just that 99.999% of pardoned people would never request access to programs or services that would still show the convictions as positive CHRC returns.
Another aspect of this case is that the sentences haven’t been entered into the system yet for Hunter. Pardoning him now may prevent the convictions from even being entered into the systems.
In order to receive his gun back wouldn't he have to fill out another 4473? If he lies again would that not be a new and separate crime?
