By Felony-system I meant the classification system. You still carry the blemishes on your record, but it's not as straight cut as "Felony on your record = you can't do these things". It seems to add a little lee-way in cases like this, where now this kid will be really disadvantaged, whereas perhaps out here it would only be on his Juvenile record, or they could argue for a non-conviction (you guys probably have these things as well, it just seem that if you get convicted of a felony over there, that's pretty much halved your standard of living forever.