Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    The presidential pardon does not reverse the civil wrongful death judgement. And the facts that came out from the criminal investigation and trial can still be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit.

    The problem that the Coulson family is facing is that their defendant seems to be judgment proof: he either doesn’t have the money, or he has structured things so they can’t get at the money.