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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a minor charge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small or less significant accusation or fee in various contexts, such as legal or financial situations.
Example: "The defendant faced a minor charge for trespassing, which carried a small fine."
Alternatives: "a small fee" or "a trivial accusation."
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Mr. Drake's case collapsed; he pleaded guilty to a minor charge and got no jail time.
After 20 months in jail, he was found guilty on a minor charge and set free.
She was later convicted of a minor charge of breaching health and safety law.
A few weeks before, Lolli had bailed Capone out of jail after a minor charge.
Your guilty plea to a minor charge — even though you didn't commit a crime — just to get out of jail and put the process behind you.
Accused of giving secrets to The Baltimore Sun, Mr. Drake pleaded guilty to a minor charge and will serve no prison time and pay no fine.
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The only available facility to detox a minor charged $40,000 for a 60-day inpatient treatment program.
It notes that preliminary determinations over where a minor charged with a serious felony should be prosecuted are now heard in juvenile court.
Less than a year after his first byline, Richardson was arrested on a relatively minor charge — the most credible reporting says he stole an ashtray from a downtown hotel — and The Times asked him to resign in return for springing him from jail.
Mr Chirac is accused of employing 21 friends in allegedly "fake jobs" at the Paris town hall, a relatively minor charge.Symbolically, however, the trial remains a bold step.
It was the second grand jury's findings - with the exception of a relatively minor charge of reckless endangerment - that were dismissed in a decision last January by Justice Stephen G. Crane of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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