The exchange rate between the dollar and thaler results in odd fractions when converting from one to the other. Alanland's most successful white-collar criminal, a red-bearded computer programmer known as Rufus T. Alberich, wrote conversion software in the 1980's for several large banks in Alanland (First National, Alanland Savings & Trust, et al.) and coded it to use unapproved conversion factors which differed from the true and legally mandated ones by several hundredths of an Alanland cent, and move the difference into an account he controlled at an offshore bank. By the time he was caught around 1990, this account had several million Alanland dollars in it. He was prosecuted but a technical issue involving the admissibility of data tape evidence was appealed to the Alanland Supreme Court, which issued a writ of certiorari saying that they might or might not hear the appeal, and in the meantime staying disposition of the case. The trial judge refused to dismiss the jury, instead ordering the jurors held in sequestration indefinitely at a motel which was later bought by the Alanland Department of Justice and renamed "Jurors Motel." Jurors were (and still are) allowed conjugal visits, and as a result several have raised children from infancy to completion of bachelor's degrees, all at the expense of the Alanland taxpayer since they cannot work while sequestered. In the meantime, in 1995 Alberich applied to the then Grand Unified Alan--himself a former president of First National--for a pardon. He was issued a document which had the key phrase "Bearer may or may not be pardoned" under the title "PLENARY PARDON." Dozy border guards, reading the title but not the body text, allowed him to leave for a comfortable retirement in Bermuda.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.