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The Attorney General asked for Marcelino Lontok to be removed from his position as a lawyer due to his conviction of bigamy. Lontok argued the charges should be dismissed because he received a pardon from the former Governor-General. The court held that the pardon wiped out the conviction and barred any proceeding to disbar Lontok based on the pardoned offense.

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Lontok

The Attorney General asked for Marcelino Lontok to be removed from his position as a lawyer due to his conviction of bigamy. Lontok argued the charges should be dismissed because he received a pardon from the former Governor-General. The court held that the pardon wiped out the conviction and barred any proceeding to disbar Lontok based on the pardoned offense.

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In re: Lontok

April 7, 1922

Facts: The Attorney-General asks that an order issue for the removal of

Marcelino Lontok from his office of lawyer in the Philippine Islands, because of

having been convicted of the crime of bigamy. The respondent lawyer, in answer,

prays that the charges be dismissed, and bases his plea principally on a pardon

issued to him by former Governor-General Harrison.

Issue: WON the effect of pardon may prevent Lontok from disbarment.

Held: Yes. Where proceedings to strike an attorney's name from the rolls

are founded on, and depend alone, on a statute making the fact of a conviction

for a felony ground for disbarment, it has been held that a pardon operates to

wipe out the conviction and is a bar to any proceeding for the disbarment of the

attorney after the pardon has been granted.

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