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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: Trump Never A Convicted Felon
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:28:16 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider

On 2024-12-18 05:34, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <vjsorv$1thtr$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> On 2024-12-17 12:49, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:55:22 -0800,  Alan says...
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2024-12-17 10:17, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The judge hasn't entered the JUDGMENT OF GUILT yet, so no...
>>>>> CERTAINLY not a "convicted felon".
>>>
>>>> There is no such term in NY State law, doofus.
>>>
>>> Here we go again... bullshit liberal faggoty semantics.
>>>
>>> "Judgment of guilt" used by the YALE LAW PROFESSOR, wasn't used as a
>>> "legal" term, moron. "Judgment of guilt" can have so many different
>>> "synonyms"... sentencing being one that is probably IN New York law,
>>> huh?
>> Once a jury's verdict is read it is in the record, and the person found
>> guilty is convicted.
>>
> Nope. No convictions yet. A verdict is not a conviction.
> 
> 

A verdict is PRECISELY a conviction.

'convict

transitive verb

to find guilty of a criminal offense'

<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convict#legalDictionary>