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The word possibly comes from the Hindi word guṇḍā (Hindi: गुंडा, "rascal"). [1] [2] There is also the identically-spelled Marathi word with a similar meaning, attested as early as the 17th century, and possibly ultimately having Dravidian roots. [3] Another theory suggests that it originates from the English word "goon".
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". [1] Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", [2] while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con" ("ex-convict").
The longer the prison sentence served the longer the conviction remains on the record, up to 15 years. If a conviction is 15 years' imprisonment this shall never be removed from the criminal record. However, if the conviction is removed, then all rights are given back to the person in question, as if the conviction had never been received at all.
A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious. [1] The term "felony" originated from English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods, to which additional punishments, including capital punishment, could be added; [2 ...
Corpus delicti (Latin for "body of the crime"; plural: corpora delicti), in Western law, is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property
The city of San Francisco is trying to change the public’s perception of criminals by introducing new language to refer to someone who committed a crime.
Over 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol Riot. Of those, 1,200 pleaded guilty or have been convicted, with sentences ranging from probation to Tarrio’s 22 years.
There is no previous conviction proved against the offender. In case the person convicted is a woman of any age, or a man aged below twenty-one years, the offence committed is not punishable with life imprisonment or death penalty. In case the person is a man above twenty-one years of age, the offence of which he is convicted is punishable with ...