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To: Zoltan! who wrote (23455)	7/10/2000 4:38:21 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769668

Okay, for everyone, an attempt to make it all clear (hahaha): the person who commits a serious crime, defined as a felony, is a felon consequent upon the commission. We hesitate in terming a particular person a felon as part of due process, and legally, the fact of guilt must be established to proceed to sentencing. Otherwise, the person goes free, guilty or not. The stringency of the process means that it is likelier for a guilty person to go free than for an innocent person to be convicted. Thus, many people who are acquitted are felons. Generally, though, we honor the verdict by refraining from terming any particular person a felon, unless we have special reason to be dissatisfied with the quality of the trial. In such a case, we may express our opinion that justice was not served by referring to a particular person who had been acquitted as a felon.