Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-27496405-20180723185324/@comment-26838855-20190101215209

OK guys, through pausing and copying any bits I can read, and then filling in the gaps with existing images of presidential pardons, I've worked out what the whole letter says in the teaser for The Punisher: Season 2, an it's pretty good news.

Executive Grant of Clemency The President of the United States of America TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: BE IT KNOWN, THAT THIS DAY THE PRESIDENT HAS GRANTED UNTO FRANK CASTLE A FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON FOR HIS CONVICTION in the United States District Court for the District of New York on an indightment (Docket No. 6421-L-Cr) charging violation of Sections 32 (2017 edition) and 536, Title 12, United States Code, Section 924, Title 44, United States Code, and Presidential Proclamation 4995, dated January 14th, 2016, for which he was sentenced on February fourth 2017, to 18 months' imprisonment and a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000) THE PRESIDENT HAS DESIGNATED, directed and empowered the Pardon Attorney as his representative to sign this grant of executive clemency. In accordance with these instructions and authority, I have signed my name and casted the seal of the Department of Justice to be ufficed hereto to affirm that this action is the act of the President being performed at his discretion. Done at the City of of Washington, District of Columbia, on March 1st 2018. BY DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT Signature

I don't know how they ended up misspelling indictment but oh well.

Anyway, this is further confirmation that The Punisher is set in late 2016 and not late 2017. It would appear that Frank was sentenced on February 4, 2017 for violating a law (2017 edition) and a presidential proclamation (which had been made on January 14, 2016), so after the events of The Punisher: Season 1 (this reaffirms that it's late 2016 because it can't have happened during the prologue of 3AM, which it would have if The Punisher: Season 1 were set in late 2017), and while he was sentenced to 18 months, the President has now sent him a pardon on March 1, 2018 (but Frank is burning it).

So that tells us:
 * Yes, again, despite the Lewis Wilson mistake, The Punisher: Season 1 is set in late 2016, which we already knew but it's good to see Marvel also know.
 * This season will likely be starting in early March 2018, roughly as I'd guessed.