felony conviction
Guilty of major crime
A felony conviction is a formal legal judgment that someone has committed a serious crime—one punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year.
Felonies include murder, rape, robbery, and drug trafficking, as distinguished from lesser misdemeanors.
A felony conviction carries lasting consequences: loss of voting rights, inability to own firearms, barriers to employment and housing.
His felony conviction made it nearly impossible to find work.
- crimePunishable illegal act
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- guilty verdictCourt's culpability determination
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
life sentence · hard time · parole · probation · three strikes · criminal · record · voting rights · second chance · jail · behind bars · court · verdict · judge · jury · indictment · charges · arrest
- repeat offendersrepeat offender, habitual offender, recidivist, habitual criminal, recidivism
- sentencinglife sentence, life sentences, prison sentence, death row, consecutive sentences
- verdictsguilty verdict, guilty, not guilty, acquitted, innocent
- divorce groundsadultery, cruelty, desertion, abandonment, infidelity
felony convictionacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
not guilty verdict · exoneration · dismissal · charges dropped · case dismissed
felony convictionclean record
Absence of prior offenses
expungement · sealed record · record expungement · pardoned · good standing
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