If you plead guilty, and it's adjudicated I'd go with you are guilty. We can get cutesie but in the end its pretty much guilty as charged. In this case I think he is a felon.
pleading guilty actually being not guilty sounds orwellian.
teedubbya wrote:
That's not always true. There's a lot of innocent people in prison, on probation, or even just as simple as having had to pay a fine because prosecutors scared them into making a plea deal.
Just because someone made a plea deal does not mean they actually did what ever it is they agreed to say they did.
It means just that, they agreed to say they are guilty so that they don't have to face the possibility of a far heftier penalty.
Prosecutors will scare people into plea deals to go after bigger fish... are you naive enough to think people won't make up stories to throw whoever they're after under the bus if it means saving their own ass?
And bringing up Orwell, his vision is no where near what it actually is... it's worse than anything he ever thought up.
So no, pleading guilty does not imply actual guilt.
One time when I was younger, a cop gave me a ticket for an accident I wasn't even in. The judge said are you sure you don't want to fight this, you'll most likely win...
I was like, nah, I don't want to mess with it. He gave me a $50 dollar fine and sent me on my way (prosecutor didn't look happy about that).
I plead guilty, I didn't do sh1t. It happens.
