American criminals

Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories.

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For inclusion in this category, a person must either

• have

• been duly, lawfully, and finally convicted by one or more United States state courts and/or one or more federal courts established pursuant to U.S. Constitution Article III (note that this definition excludes convictions in impeachment proceedings or courts martial unless accompanied by a parallel conviction in a judicial tribunal) of

and

• not received a subsequent full pardon, seal/expungement of conviction, or appellate vacation or reversal of conviction for

or

• have committed with unambiguous verifiability (as demonstrated by, e.g., having made a confession whose validity is undisputed) but, for reasons other than insufficiency of proof (e.g., having died while committing the crime according to evidence not reasonably disputable or while both being a fugitive from justice during trial or appeal and not actively disputing guilt),

not have been convicted of

at least one noteworthy offense that would, if committed today, fit the common-law definition of a felony, namely its being punishable by death and/or by imprisonment for more than one year, under the law of the U.S. state or federal jurisdiction imposing the conviction.

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