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What is a felony?

What is a felony? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, law) A serious criminal offense, which, under federal law, is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or by death.
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As a journalist, she is under no written or unwritten rules of restraint to aid or abet a felony.
The 39-year-old singer was booked on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon late on Friday.
In any jurisdiction in the country, aiding and abetting a felony is a crime, subject to prosecution, trial, and imprisonment.
Beginning in 2009, adults arrested for any felony offense are subject to DNA collection.
They would no more fess up to a face lift, nose job or liposuction then they would the commission of a major felony.
A 1996 immigration reform law allows the government to deport illegal aliens convicted of an aggravated felony.

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