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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RJC2006 who wrote (11312)	3/18/1998 7:54:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

>>Hmm, I always thought that a guilty plea constituted a conviction regardless of a level of petty, misdemeanor or felony. A conviction is the result of a criminal trial which ends in a judgment or sentence that the accused is guilty as charged. I don't believe it actually went to trial, and it was a plea to reduced charges. Are you a convict when you plead guilty to petty offenses? If that were true, just about everyone out there would be a convict (traffic tickets et al). Generally, people who admit to misdemeanors are referred to as people who had plead guilty, not convicts - though legally they may be. If you want to call yourself a convict, go ahead, but that's not how the term is used in everyday parlance. In that use, it refers to felony convictions.