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Originally Posted by nate2512
One would have to assume so. He goes to apply for the bar, they run a background check, he's clear. The same thing could have happened to someone unknown, and hardly anyone would know that difference, just because he's rather well known shouldn't make a difference.
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It could, and should, make a big difference. Not the fact that he's well known, but the fact that his conviction is well-known to the bar. Bar examiners don't just look at criminal convictions, they look at anything that would reflect on an applicants' professional ethics and fitness to practice law.
He'd be
reapplying to the bar, so even if the examiners had been living under a rock, his application for readmission would indicate why he lost his license to beging with. I'm not saying that his application to be readmitted shouldn't even be considered had he been pardoned, just that a pardon wouldn't, and shouldn't, equal automatic readmission.