User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 336: In Order to Live Today to the Fullest, Review and Commentary/@comment-3290324-20130623225622/@comment-7418318-20130624211317

No he's not. Only the leaders of the countries and/or villages can decide that and they won't make such a decision in the middle of battle, so untill the battle is over, he's technically a criminal.

And while Naruto's word might carry a lot of weight behind it, with him being the saviour and all that, I doubt even he can convince the leader to just disregard all their own laws completely and just let all of Sasuke's many and severe cimes go unpunished. A mild sentence maybe, but a full pardon? No way.

He assasinated the acting Hokage, killed dozens of Samurai, tried to kill the Raikage, tried to kidnap Bee, commited treason by joining first with Orochimaru and then with Akatsuki.... and that's just the "highlights"!