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.
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.
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.