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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Please educate me on the meaning of "no contest".
You say I don't know what it means but you never bother to say what it means.
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When you and your gangster friends think you are avoiding something or being somehow helping your situation are sadly mistaken.
When you plead nolo contendre in a criminal case you are not saying you are guilty or not, and you will accept your punishment. The court sees it as a guilty.
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only time no contest helps you is if there is a pending civil case, where your conviction might be used as evidence against you in that trial. Nolo contendre means they can not use your plea as evidence against you in the civil case.
For example: I beat you up, and blow up your car. I get arrested for battery and using explosives within city limits.
You are planning on suing me as soon as you get out of the hospital.
If I go to trial on the criminal case and lose, you can use that as evidence against me in your civil trial. If I plead guilty, same thing happens.
If I plead nolo contendre my criminal case does not even come into evidence.