ESCAPE / 18 U.S.C. Sec. 751(a) is a federal law that applies to the United States. It outlines the conditions under which a person who is charged with a felony offense may have their conviction overturned. The law states that if a person is found guilty of a felony offense and is later found to have been innocent of the charges, they may move to have their conviction vacated and their charges dismissed. This is known as an escape conviction. There are two types of escape conviction under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 751(a): actual innocence and legal innocence. Actual innocence is when a person is later found to have been actually innocent of the charges they were convicted of, while legal innocence is when a person is found to have been wrongfully convicted due to an error in the legal process. In either case, the person may move to have their conviction overturned and their charges dismissed.