Who may request a pardon?
The guidelines regarding who may apply for a pardon are as follows: • No petition for pardon shall be considered while the petitioner is incarcerated. • Misdemeanants must have been crime-free from the date of sentence, released from incarceration, or released from parole or probation whichever last occurred, for a period of five years. • Except as provided in the next paragraph, felons must have been crime-free from the date of sentence, released from incarceration, or released from parole or probation, whichever last occurred for ten years except, however, the Parole Commission may, at its discretion and in specific instances, consider cases in which only seven years have elapsed. • Felons convicted of crimes of violence as defined in Article 27, Section 643B and felons convicted of controlled dangerous substance violations must have been crime-free from the date of sentence, released from incarceration, or released from parole or probation, whichever last occurred, for twenty years
