Now.  Let us see.  He did plea guilty to something.  That does make a criminal past.  Now again, I will give you something on the "innuendo".  I am inferring that it was originally a felony charge.  There is no proof that he pleaded down to a lessor charge of battery.  However, because of the length of the probation I highly suspect that it was a felony originally.  Since we do not have his full disclosure, there is no way of telling.