When comparing youth arrested for the same felony offenses, data showed that "adolescents processed in the New York adult courts were more likely to be rearrested, to be re-arrested more often and more quickly, to commit more serious offenses, and to be re-incarcerated at higher rates than those in the New Jersey juvenile courts". 3). 3
And the fact that, for that federal employee, it was a felony to misuse the data -- it was punishable by five years in jail and a $100,000 fine, which I don't believe has ever happened -- but they were perfectly willing for a green-card holder at an ISP who may or may have not have been an illegal entrant to the United States to handle their data.
He was released after pleading guilty to one felony count of mishandling nuclear weapons data.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, after studying partial data on state-court felony prosecutions nationwide, found that from 1986 to 2006 the ratio of pleas to trials nearly doubled.
Finally, the authors examine the possible presence of jury nullification through empirical analysis of data collected from 372 felony jury trials in four state courts.
Frank McIntyre, an economist, and I recently examined data from over 100,000 felony defendants over a 15-year period, and we found very clear trends regarding which defendants are more likely to commit crimes while free on bail.
We use a data set consisting of felony trials in London from 1835 to 1913 to analyze changing demographic patterns in the commission of crimes.
Based on the evidence collected by police, Syvok wrote that he believes Lai committed a felony crime for unlawfully accessing computer data.
But when the paper examined felony arrest statistics they found, [the] data shows that prostitution-related felonies are being levied almost exclusively against sex workers.
The new bill would make almost all unauthorized and willful disclosures of classified data by government employees a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.
