light of the Legislature’s determination, in enacting the probation revocation provision, that “a defendant who commits a felony while on probation is no longer deserving of freedom” or amenable to rehabilitation and the Legislature’s deep concern over a probationer committing a felony during his or her period of probation, as shown by its amending the statute in 1980 to mandate revocation in this situation. Id. Given the purpose of HRS § 134-7(b) to protect the public, it would appear that the broader, more commonly used meaning of “conviction” as a verdict of guilty or plea of guilty and “convicted” as an ascertainment of guilt by guilty verdict or guilty plea should apply to HRS § 134-7(b). See id. at 166-67, 706 P.2d at 1303; United States v. Faison, 61 F.3d 22, 23 (11th Cir.1995) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Bennett, 285 F.Supp.2d 978,
holding that a jury verdict of guilty constitutes a conviction for purposes of the federal firearms statute and therefore the defendant was convicted of a felony during the interval between the jurys return of its guilty verdict and his scheduled sentencing holding that jurys original verdict of guilty without intent and recommend mere was an acquittal such that after it was presented to an officer of the court and the court the trial had ended  and the trial court was without authority to return the jury to its room for any further action holding that trial court did not err in declining to accept jurys first verdict when form stated that the jury found the defendant undecided and trial courts interpretation of the verdict form to mean that the jury was either not unanimous or had not decided yet whether defendant was guilty or not guilty was reasonable and thus trial court properly instructed jury to continue deliberating holding that the statute that provides for a verdict of guilty but mentally ill does not preclude a death sentence as the result of such a verdict holding that to establish a conviction for immigration purposes a court must accept a guilty plea or jury verdict make an adjudication and impose a sentence