Originally Posted by rickair7777

Um, no. They will not want to hear about how your crime was justified, even in the context of the time. The only acceptable answer when asked is that it was a mistake, you learned from it, and are a changed person. Seriously you have to convince them you've truly changed, they won't hire you otherwise. Mitigation, if you were young, can be that you ran with the wrong crowd, folks understand how that can happen with youth.