What is the difference between a criminal conviction for a charge of assault with intent to pervert the course of justice and a conviction for the same offence?

Further, defendant fails to appreciate that equating a prison sentence to jail is like comparing apples and oranges. For example, a person sentenced to prison, unlike one confined in jail, is forever barred from seeking expungement under Penal Code section 1203.4 (see People v. Borja (1980) 110 Cal.App.3d 378, 381, 167 Cal.Rptr. 813 ),¹³ and a jail inmate will have no further obligations upon completion of the sentence, while a person released from prison will still be supervised on parole ( Pen. Code, 3000 et seq. ). (See In re Valenti (1986) 178 Cal.App.3d 470, 475, 224 Cal.Rptr. 10 [finding "a significant difference in the quality and duration of punishment, as well as in resultant long-term effects, which are brought about by a conviction for a felony as opposed to that for a misdemeanor," and noting "[a] felon is uniquely burdened by a diverse collection of statutorily imposed disabilities long after his release from prison"].)