塔克的案子正在上诉，而哈贝尔确实犯了法，但在考虑是否赦免他前的那段时间，他也反常例地被关在狱里。

Tucker's case was on appeal and Hubbell had actually broken the law and had not been out of jail for the usual period before being considered for a pardon.

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这大概反映了“和平协议”的矛盾本质（北爱问题以签定《贝尔法斯特协议》宣布结束）——建立在集体赦免的基础上，还给北爱版图留下一个尚不确定的未来。

This may reflect the ambivalent nature of a “settlement”, based on a blanket amnesty and with the territory’s future wide-open.

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州长有权赦免或从轻判决犯了州法的犯人。

The governor has the power to pardon or reduce the sentences of persons convicted of state crimes.

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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