Sentence examples for felonies from from inspiring English sources

These includes laws prohibiting carrying concealed weapons and laws barring people convicted of felonies from owning guns.

There are no guards, even though workers are serving time for the entire range of felonies, from stabbing friends to raping children to burning down houses.

Administrative judges moved quickly to transfer 10,000 misdemeanor cases and 8,000 unindicted felonies from Supreme Court to Criminal Court, where such cases were heard before the merger.

Patrick Culligan, chief of the agency's Capital Defense and Trial Services Unit, said the study examines whether racial bias existed in prosecutions for capital felonies from 1973 to 1998.

He laid out a criminal-justice-reform package he has introduced in the Senate to end mandatory minimum-sentencing laws, expunge nonviolent felonies from criminals' records, reclassify some felonies as misdemeanors, and restore voting rights to citizens who had committed a nonviolent felony.

It also reclassifies past petty offenders, enabling them remove felonies from their records.

In 1996, the Clinton administration enacted the "One Strike" rule banning anyone who committed a felony from public housing.

Despite being convicted, Mr. Bradley is not required to resign; state law bars those convicted of a felony from holding public office.

Even if Mr. Bradley were convicted, he would not be required to resign; state law bars those convicted of a felony from holding public office.

A New Mexico law bars anyone convicted of a felony from seeking election unless the candidate has received a pardon from the governor.

The State Senate approved a bill yesterday that would raise the classification of endangering the welfare of a child to a felony from a misdemeanor.