The direct result of over-exposure to the terminally obtuse.
Here we have someone thinking being jailed and going to court 3 times is merely "talking to a magistrate" (and where are THEY found?) and doesn't trigger a "yes" on Question 10; on another board we have a moron who pleaded to a felony asking if his wife can buy a gun for him AFTER he failed the NICS check; and 4 out of either 6 or 8 applicants at the last FLRB meeting also blew # 10 (and 1 or 2 other questions). The only reason anyone comes to the FLRB is if they were not merely arrested or even convicted; it is because they have a disqualifying conviction. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, how much more "appeared as a defendant in any court" can you get?
Schools are clearly failing to teach reading comprehension. Given some of the appalling spelling, punctuation and syntax errors I see, it is questionable whether reading is being taught at all.
I'm sorry maybe he wasn't horribly clear on his post. He didn't appear in front of a judge. Each time he went to the court house the clerk would tell him to come back on another day. Finally, the magistrate told him to pay the court fees and to keep out of trouble. I understand he misunderstood the meaning of the word defendant, but there's always a word or 2 that people can't grasp the meaning of.