Category:American criminals

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For inclusion in this category, a person must meet the following conditions:

• The person was duly, lawfully, and finally convicted of a noteworthy felony by one or more Federal Article III courts or State courts (excluding impeachments or courts martial without another parallel conviction in a judicial tribunal, and cases resulting in a conviction that have been subsequently dismissed and/or reopened with a new trial); or
• the person has committed notable and unambiguously verifiable felony criminal acts, but have gone unconvicted for reasons other than lack of proof such as death during the commission of the crime where the allegation of criminal activity was undisputed, undisputed confession, death during appeal where guilt was undisputed, or being a fugitive from justice where original guilt was undisputed.
• The act is still punishable as a felony if it were committed today - holding all other elements of the act the same and assuming for this purpose it is physically possible to commit the act. For this purpose, treat monetary amounts of offenses in terms of nominal or current dollars.

A person whose convictions have subsequently been fully pardoned should not be included in this category if

• the court of conviction has sealed or expunged the conviction(s) in federal cases;
• a state entity has sealed or expunged the conviction(s) in state cases.

Articles should be placed into each subcategory that applies.

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.