| Most of the mittimus patients were tried for major felonies and tend to be substantially more violent than regular patients. |
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| The prosecution's use of such evidence to stampede a jury into convicting him of multiple felonies flies in the face of the First Amendment. |
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| Clark was charged with robbery of a motor vehicle, theft by unlawful taking or disposition, and receiving stolen property, all felonies. |
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| Breaches of homage constituted felonies, and these could bring the tenurial relationship to an end. |
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| There is a considerable historical literature that explores changes in the process of prosecuting both felonies and misdemeanors in England. |
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| The total number of sustained felonies, misdemeanors, and probation violations was computed. |
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| Dealing with felonies, including rape, murder, and assault, often fell to the citizens who witnessed them. |
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| And the schedule is there, so your Honours can see how the felonies and misdemeanours were changed. |
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| The searches would not detect felons who had committed felonies in other states, and then moved to Washington. |
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| Gradually the distinctions between felonies and misdemeanours were eroded by legislation. |
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| Most of them have committed felonies like drug possession, drunk driving, and shoplifting. |
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| In the US, the vast majority of murders and other felonies are state crimes. |
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| The principal felonies were homicide, rape, theft, burglary, robbery and arson. |
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| You work your way through the criminal underbelly of a city, jacking cars and committing all kinds of felonies as you make your way to the top. |
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| But a cluster of felonies landed Webb Hubbell in jail, and frozen out of the inner circle. |
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| She said that she was not, but that it would have been something of a non-issue, because most felonies in those days were crimes punished by death. |
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| For felonies punishable by any other penalty, the statutory limitation is 10 years. |
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| Any increase of the maximum penalty because of repetition or concurrence of felonies shall not be taken into account. |
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| The majority of offences are crimes of misdemeanour, less serious felonies, or public nuisance. |
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| Indictable offenses are further divided into treasons, other felonies, and misdemeanours. |
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| Then technically those things are legally sufficient to constitute felonies. |
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| All children were held together, wether street children or those who had commited felonies, wether they were 3 or 18 years old. |
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| Melendez, who was fired and denies wrongdoing, has been charged with three felonies. |
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| The accused is notified of this right only in cases involving felonies in which, if he fails to choose a lawyer, the court appoints one for him. |
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| For felonies punishable by the death penalty or life imprisonment, the statutory limitation is 25 years. |
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| An entire division of the federal government tracks the quantity of felonies. |
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| What's the difference between felonies, misdemeanors, and infractions? |
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| If they had passed, presumably mothers who drink during pregnancy could be charged with felonies. |
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| The new law introduces heavy sanctions for perpetrators of terrorist acts and expands the range of felonies committed with the intention of terror. |
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| On the other hand the law guarantees the rights of an accused person in all offences committed through publications and other felonies provided for in the Penal Code through the various media. |
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| A felony may be punishable with imprisonment for two or more years or death in the case of the most serious felonies, such as murder. |
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| By 1670, as new felonies were defined, the option of being sentenced to transportation was allowed. |
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| For felonies or misdemeanors committed by subsidiaries of French companies, it remains very difficult to prove that the parent company gave the means to the subsidiary to commit the offence in question. |
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| Largely because of her role in the Buddhist-temple episode, Hsia was convicted last March of five felonies in federal district court in Washington, and she will probably be sentenced later this fall. |
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| The only exception to this is in cases involving felonies committed by juveniles over 15 years of age, who are liable to reduced penalties that differ from those imposed on adults. |
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| The Code provides for imprisonment of three to five years if the offence is punishable by execution or life imprisonment and of one to three years for other felonies. |
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| Cases involving felonies, including felonies for which the prescribed penalty is death, are considered by the criminal divisions of the high courts of appeal. |
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| For felonies punishable by a term of imprisonment, the statutory limitation is double the term of imprisonment to which the offender was sentenced by the court, but not in any case more than 20 years or less than 10 years. |
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| Persons sentenced to this penalty shall be confined in places other than the places in which offenders who have committed felonies or misdemeanours are confined. |
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| However, other than making it easier for DOJ to prosecute the most aggravated violations as felonies, BCRA left the process by which FECA is enforced virtually untouched. |
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| A decade earlier, half the cases at an arraignment shift would have been felonies, administrators say, and arraigning 50 cases in a night would have seemed speedy. |
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| In cases involving felonies, if the accused does not choose a lawyer and requests that one be appointed, the examining magistrate calls upon the President of the Bar Association to appoint a lawyer for him. |
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| Records of solved felonies alone reveal that these career criminals commit 81 per cent of all burglaries and 68-77 percent of the rapes, muggings, robberies, car thefts and forgeries. |
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| The Statutes of the Bar Association and the Code of Criminal Procedure stipulate that, in cases involving felonies, the court must appoint a lawyer to defend the accused free of charge. |
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| It should be noted that violations of the Electoral Law fall under the Penal Code, of which article 319 deals with felonies committed in connection with elections. |
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| They were asked to commit felonies because gangs can exploit youngsters and the youth that are there with the protection that is afforded to them under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. |
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| He is in exile in Russia having been charged with three felonies by the US government in relation to the leak, including one count under the Espionage Act. |
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| The criminal law was much the same, with felonies such as murder, larceny and robbery prosecuted before the justiciar, as in England. |
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| The constitution of Pennsylvania required, between 1874 and 1968, that a grand jury indict all felonies. |
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| Mala in se offenses are felonies, property crimes, immoral acts and corrupt acts by public officials. |
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| Some offenses, though similar in nature, may be felonies or misdemeanors depending on the circumstances. |
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| Misdemeanors, felonies and paternity suits are explained in full. |
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| Indeed, at common law when the British and American legal systems divorced in 1776, felonies were crimes punishable by either death or forfeiture of property. |
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| In some states, all or most felonies are placed into one of various classes according to their seriousness and their potential punishment upon conviction. |
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| The surviving differences consisted of different rules of evidence and procedure, and the Law Commission recommended that felonies be abolished altogether. |
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| Federal law does not have any provisions for persons convicted of federal felonies in a federal United States district court to apply to have their record expunged. |
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| A Northern California man was charged this week with two felonies after a traffic stop in Stevenson Ranch netted 880 pounds of cocaine in the bed of his pickup truck. |
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| The bill proposes to make it illegal for any person adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for serious violent felonies or drug crimes to receive or possess firearms. |
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| State prison inmates brought a Fourth Amendment challenge to a state law requiring those who were convicted of felonies to furnish DNA samples for storage in a data bank. |
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