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 12:16:29 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-12-18 10:01, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <vjv0ng$2ctn3$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> 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>
>
> No sentence, appeal on it's way.
A sentence is not a necessary element of a conviction.