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From my perspective, the life equivalent to losing your queen in a game of chess is getting a felony conviction as a citizen of the United States.Once you’re a convicted felon, all manner of discrimination against you is perfectly legal. These are called “collateral consequences.” Also, fun side note: a defense attorney representing you is not required to tell you about these collateral consequences except in certain cases of immigration consequences where a risk of removal from the United States is almost certain.It will be extremely difficult to get a job. Many job options simply won’t hire felons at all. It’s technically illegal under some interpretations of Title VII, but so long as it’s not a blanket ban or stated, written policy, it’s hard to prove unless it’s an openly racially motivated policy. Tough to show. Other jobs with competitive pools of applicants will simply place felon resumes and applications into the circular file cabinet in the first round of cutting down applicant pools.That typically leaves menial labor, which pays poorly and will leave a felon likely in lifelong poverty.Lying on an application about a felony conviction may open up a felon to additional prosecution; background checks will always discover the conviction.There may be state laws that prohibit such discrimination, but not every state has them, and the level of anti-discrimination protection varies considerably.Certain jobs can also be forever banned for a convicted felon. Jobs that require certain occupational licenses, like public school teachers, might be forever denied because of a felony conviction. (This happened to a college classmate of mine; he had to leave the education program we were in due to a felony drug conviction for possession of marijuana.)Felons will usually lose the right to vote and other civil liberties. In Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia, and Wyoming, this can be permanent, even well after a felon may have served any possible sentence and conditional release. In each of these states, a felon has to apply to a state board or governor for some kind of clemency to restore their civil rights. In Wyoming, a first-time, non-violent offender must wait five years before even making the application; more serious offenders have even longer periods.Landlords can discriminate against felons in housing applications. Again, perfectly legal, for certain felonies. It’s illegal under Federal law to discriminate against a felon for a drug possession conviction, but not for any sale or manufacturing of controlled substances. A college kid who gets caught selling a baggie of weed to a fellow student might find himself legally excluded from a significant bit of affordable housing for a very long time, if not life.In efforts to be “tough on crime,” states have passed increasingly restrictive laws on where people with certain types of felonies may live. There are often very good reasons for this; sexual predators and repeated drug dealers obviously shouldn’t be allowed to live near schools. But states have been recently passing laws to classify more and more offenses as predatory or otherwise severe enough to restrict where certain felons may live, often for life.Again, state laws have an impact on this, but it depends on the state. Your mileage may vary. Significantly.Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a felony conviction, no matter how old, is legally includable in a credit report. Every application for credit, even for insurance, might turn up that conviction, which can affect the ability of a person to obtain loans, credit cards, insurance, and more at affordable rates.Stephen Link also points out a couple of important ones I missed:Future convictions will certainly be harsher, often much more so. Doubly true if the felony is an enhanceable felony, such as a DUI or domestic assault conviction; these make future incidents, even if they would normally be misdemeanors or gross misdemeanors, automatically felonies.I once saw a man charged with having .04 grams of marijuana, essentially a few flakes and not enough to smoke, being charged with a Class E felony, carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine, solely because he had a prior felony drug conviction on his record from 27 years prior. His record other than a few parking violations and a speeding ticket had been spotless since then. He believed that the weed bag was likely tossed through the open window of his car by a resident of the apartment complex he was living in and was willing to take a hair follicle test to prove he had not been using.Rights to own a gun are usually curtailed for at least the time serving a sentence, if not longer. In most states, certain felonies may result in a lifetime ban on possession of firearms.On any possession of firearms - even temporary. If you picked up a gun you found on a playground to move it because you were afraid kids could get hurt and immediately walked it over to a police officer for safe disposal, you could be convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. If you took a gun away from a robber who was about to shoot the cashier behind the counter, you could be convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. This happens more often than you’d think.Violent felonies, particularly domestic violence, are almost never, ever expunged.Applications for public housing will become far more likely to be denied or otherwise negatively affected.It becomes significantly more difficult to get a passport or a visa to another country.All of this together makes life very difficult for convicted felons.There are good arguments on both sides as to whether this is fair or good.Proponents note that a person convicted of a felony has shown poor enough moral judgment or have so violated the “social contract” that they are no longer worthy of full rights in a just world. This deontological view takes the perspective that there are strict natural laws that are inherent to the world. This deontological view suggests that breaking those natural laws (or civilly created laws) should have long, if not lifelong consequences, to sufficiently deter future lawbreaking, either by that particular person, or to send a clear deterrent message to all other social participants.Opponents note that certain felonies are heavily skewed towards persons of color and minority views. See The New Jim Crow for a detailed description of how after the Civil Rights movement succeeded in passing several Federal laws towards civil rights, segregationists and white nationalists sought to essentially criminalize “being black” instead. One of Nixon’s advisors admitted many years later that the “War on Drugs” was always meant to disproportionately impact persons of color and that the administration knew it was lying about certain drugs.I leave it to the reader to decide which perspective they agree with and advocate for neither in this answer.Convicted felons may have the equivalent of advancing a pawn to the home row of their opponent to get a queen back in the form of a process called “expungement.” This involves a petition to a court, a fairly high bar of proof of rehabilitation, and sometimes a sympathetic judge. If successful, a felon may have the conviction sealed and it no longer shows up on that person’s criminal records searches. It is difficult to succeed in this and again, is very dependent on which state the felon may live in.Is it possible to succeed in a game of chess without a queen? Yes. As it is possible in life to succeed with a felony conviction. But, like chess, having a felony conviction makes succeeding much more difficult.Thanks for the A2A.

Thanks for the A2A.Background info- I was accepted into the class of 2022 at Hopkins this past fall as an early decision applicant. I went to a private Catholic school in Iowa. I had a spinal cord injury a few years ago, and I wrote about my experiences living with paralysis in my personal statement.Extracurriculars:National Honors Society (2 years) & President (1 year)Student council representative (3 years)Youth basketball coach and mentor at Beyond the Baseline (1 year)Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) leader (4 years)Junior Rotarian (1 year)Math tutor (1 year)Academic decathlon member (2 years)Transverse Myelitis research at Washington University in St. Louis (Summer before senior year)Transverse Myelitis activist (3 years)Self-rehabilitation/therapy (3 years)Debate team (1 year)Reflection:To be honest, I struggled finding ECs that I actually enjoyed. Before becoming paralyzed the summer before sophomore year, I heavily participated in sports. Obviously, after my injury, I was unable to play high school sports, which was the only thing I liked and wanted to do. Sadly, most of the activities I participated in were solely for the title and to make me more competitive as an applicant. My advice to you is to find 2–3 activities/clubs that you truly enjoy, work toward becoming a leader in them, and make an impact. If the club/activity that you want to participate in/lead doesn’t exist, create it.Ultimately, you do not need international awards. Sure, they can help. But if you can dedicate yourself to a few activities and become a leader in them, I think you will have a shot (if you have solid stats, essays, teacher recs, luck, etc.).Best of luck—KH

No, you cannot.Go to your local county treasurer's office and:Present your valid Iowa driver's license.Complete the Application for Certificate of Title and/or Registration for a Vehicle (Form 411007) with the vehicle odometer reading written in the appropriate box.Present the vehicle title, loan paperwork, or other documents proving ownership of the vehicle.If there is a loan on the vehicle, you will need to contact the lender in order to complete the paperwork to register the vehicle.Pay the registration fees (see “Iowa Vehicle Registration Fees" below).Dealerships are required to get a copy of your driver’s license before they sell it to you. If you buy from an individual, you must present the information above. So there is no way to get a registration, and therefore plates, in Iowa without it.Iowa Car Registration Requirements & Steps | DMV.ORG