Sentence examples for felony level from inspiring English sources

Two decades ago, just six states had felony level animal cruelty laws.

The proposed registries in Tennessee and California would include only adult and convicted offenders of felony level animal abuse.

Senator Leland Yee, Democrat of San Francisco, is planning to introduce a related bill that would make an observer legally obligated to report a felony level sexual assault against a victim 18 or younger, a spokesman said.

In light of some initial group differences (i.e., number of prior arrests, gender, and felony level offenders) and to account for varying times at risk (from release until re-arrest or the end of the follow-up period), a multivariate survival analysis (i.e., Cox regression) was utilized.

However, males had significantly lower probability of return to jail for any reason than females (β = −.708, S.E. = .223, p < .01), as did non-White relative to White defendants (β = −.726, S.E. = .347, p < .05); while felony level defendants (β = .504, S.E. = .226, p < .05) and those with more prior arrests had a significantly higher likelihood of return to jail (β = .109, S.E. = .020, p < .01).01

This means that a first-time offender with as little as a half-gram of cocaine with intent to sell would be punished at the same felony level as someone charged with second degree murder, except the murder convict would eventually be eligible for parole, Funk said.

Not only was I in possession of felony levels of LSD at the time, but I'd also dealt various drugs to my classmates, their friends, and underclassmen as young as 14.

While many of the 1,600 young people sent to New York residential facilities each year are there for committing serious felony-level offenses, the majority are not.

The law would also mandate 25 years to life in prison for anyone convicted more than once of rape or other felony-level sex crimes.

Three men were charged with felony-level trademark counterfeiting, a more serious charge than the misdemeanors doled out to the guys with the catalogs on the corner.

The torrent technology wasn't easy to master, a good ratio was difficult to maintain, the forum moderators were Nazis, and uploading even a single byte of data to the site technically constituted a felony-level conspiracy.