If they prevent currently or past convicted citizens from voting, they are denying them most basic right of being an American.
While such actions would have been enough in the past to convict a minor as a member of a terrorist organization, under the amendment to the 2006 law, minors caught at pro-P.K.K. demonstrations will no longer be charged with being members of a terrorist organization.
If the boy is found guilty in the stolen sandal case, he could face up to five years in prison — a greater sentence than that meted out in the past to convicted terrorists and major corruption convicts.
Mr. Drikman was being held for several robberies, and had in the past been convicted of a horrific rape.
In the past, people convicted of these crimes — which include forging invoices to avoid taxes and smuggling cultural relics out of the country — rarely received the death penalty.
After about five hours of deliberation on Monday, 12 jurors, including many who said they had voted for Mr. Janklow in past elections, convicted him on all charges in an August wreck that left a motorcyclist dead on a country road a few miles from this courthouse.
Google said last Monday that it had so far received 41,000 requests to take down sensitive material from people in Europe since the landmark ruling, including a politician with a murky past, a convicted paedophile and a man who had attempted to murder his family and wanted to remove links about his crime.
Under Crist, past offenders convicted of less serious felonies could have their rights restored without a clemency board hearing; more than 150,000 people regained their voting rights while Crist was in office.
Despite these exceptions, a convict past, even convict ancestry, was a "stain" to be hidden, and this remained the case until well into the 20th century.
