{"id":13027,"date":"2015-08-19T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalpardon.org\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:33:05","slug":"absolute-or-conditional-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/?p=13027","title":{"rendered":"Absolute or Conditional Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Absolute or Conditional Discharge<\/h1>\n<p>The Discharge is a strange type of sentence. It is given when a person is found guilty of the crime but is not convicted.\u00a0 It is normally given to first-time offenders for minor crimes, or when the person\u2019s involvement in the crime was so marginal that technically they\u2019re guilty but a conviction is not actually warranted.<\/p>\n<p>An absolute discharge has no other penalties, like probation, associated with it and the record of the offence is automatically removed from the individual\u2019s criminal record one year after the sentence is handed down in court. It is the lightest possible sentence. When someone is given a conditional discharge they are often given probation as well. The conditional discharge will be automatically removed from their record after three years. Keep in mind that the record is only removed at the RCMP level. 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