Briefly looking at the wiki article, it looks like it’s more complicated than that. The president does have pardon power there, but not all crime in DC is a federal crime. There’s a lot of fiddly bits where for many purposes DC acts like a state as well as a city.
DC police are federal, i think, so you can see how this ends
Briefly looking at the wiki article, it looks like it’s more complicated than that. The president does have pardon power there, but not all crime in DC is a federal crime. There’s a lot of fiddly bits where for many purposes DC acts like a state as well as a city.