Joe Biden

Executive Grant of Clemency—Edward Lincoln De Coito III

December 30, 2022

Executive Grant of Clemency

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.

President of the United States of America

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

BE IT KNOWN, THAT THIS DAY, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PURSUANT TO MY POWERS UNDER ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION, AFTER CONSIDERING THE APPLICATION FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, HAVE GRANTED UNTO

EDWARD LINCOLN DE COITO III

A FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON

FOR HIS CONVICTION in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on an indictment (Docket No. 98CR1287-IEG) charging violation of Sections 841(a)(1) and 846, Title 21, United States Code, for which he was sentenced on February 16, 1999, to 30 months' imprisonment and four years' supervised release.

I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower the Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to sign a grant of clemency to the person named herein. The Pardon Attorney shall declare that her action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this 30th day of December in the year of our Lord Two thousand and Twenty-two and of the Independence of the United States the Two hundred and Forty-seventh.

Signature of Joe Biden
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.
PRESIDENT

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Executive Grant of Clemency—Edward Lincoln De Coito III Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/375320

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