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Wilson will be sentenced next week, and like most who are found guilty, he didn't like the verdict one bit. But he did an extraordinary thing: he came to our studio to say the jury had it all wrong. Here's how he put it today:...

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Sir, you're guilty, why are you here?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"Because I believe that the jury made a wrong verdict in convicting me for the two counts of false pretense of officer because they did not understand the difference of a special constable and a police constable."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"It seems that it is a case of you don't like the verdict, soh you're saying the people don't understand."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"No, no it's very clear that they might have been confused."

"There's no law that says impersonating a special constable. So if I would come to you and tell you Mr. Jules and tell you I am a special constable and I would be charged for telling you I am a police, that charge will drop because there's no law for it."

"The law says that you need to pretend to be a police constable."

"There's no law for the charge so they're now saying I was impersonating a police. I went to tell everyone out here that I was a special constable. But because the special constable charge can't work in court, the arresting officer, the investigator, told the court that I said to him I'm a PC."

"They have come with the thought "who made you a special constable then?" How would you go to be a special constable? But I have always maintained the truth in my heart how I became a special constable working in the police department."

"For one week I work at Queen Street Police Station when I was transferred to Raccoon Police Station. I had firearm from the police department. Why wasn't I charge for firearm? I had everything from the police department. I had uniform. I did have a regulation number. This story is like crazy, even it's a confusion."

"There's no way that a person can pretend to be special constable if the law doesn't exist for it. I believe that it is a confusion."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Aaron, we're you pretending to be a special constable?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"I was not."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"You're a real special constable?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"In my mind I was."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"In your mind you were. But you have a difference in your mind and reality. Do you accept that in reality you had not been enlisted as a special constable?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"Well being a special constable, you don't go with the person who swear you in and follow all what they are doing to see if you are being sworn in as everyone else. If you are in front on an officer that is high in command and he is telling you what a special constable is, what is the duty of a special constable and how I can be a special constable, then my mind is that I am becoming a special constable in the reality way."

"How would a person just dress in a police uniform walk - even a regular police can enter a lineup like that if they are not in the team and how did I end up in the team?"

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"But you knew that at some level perpetrating a fraud."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"I would not have known that, because..."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"You were acting as a real police and you weren't even a real special constable."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"That's the issue with it."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Even if you was or not, you weren't a special constable."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"Legally, I realized that I was setup."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Legally you were not Aaron - a special constable."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"They did not prove that to the court."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"But you weren't even a special constable Aaron."

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"I believe I was and until today's date, I will always maintain that I was, because if I were not a special constable, I would have never been able to work 7 months for the police department."

"You believe a man could dress in a police uniform and go to a station and say "I work here?" It's a hard thing sir. I was sent over there and when I was sent over there and when I reach there at the Queen Street Police Station, I was welcomed - "You are Wilson, special constable.""

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Who sent you?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"Mr. Henderson."

Wilson claims he was set up, paid and positioned by a senior officer in the Department - a claim which that now former officer denied in court.

But while he's made his case in the court of public opinion, Wilson still has to go back before the judge next Monday for sentencing. He has one week to prepare a mitigation plea - but he says he is worried:...

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"Are you concern about this sentencing?"

Aaron Wilson, Rejects Jury's "Guilty" Verdict
"Well I am, because it's my freedom, it's my life and I have to be concerned. I would be crazy if I am not concerned."

On next Monday's newscast, we'll tell you what the Judge decided on for sentencing.