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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: crime confusion
Summary: legal folklore
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.202722.13748@ico.isc.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 20:27:22 GMT
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doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis) writes, among other things:

> Of course you all know that technically if you pay a moving violation traffic
> ticket you were "arrested" and "convicted."  Keep that in mind the
> next time you fill out a job application.....

The :-) is missing.  This is wrong, of course.  There are various sorts of
laws which you are expected to obey.  Not every violation of a law is a
crime.  There are a few traffic laws which, if violated, will get you
arrested.  Most won't.  You'll have to pay a fine, but you won't go to
jail.  You'll have a traffic-violation record, but that's not a criminal
record.  Best to keep the two straight.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...but Meatball doesn't work that way!