Sentence examples for felony liability from inspiring English sources
"That criminal felony liability is being imposed for behavior that isn't even copyright infringement, for making a tool which may have legitimate uses, is the kind of reach that we haven't had before".
In 1990, the Canadian Supreme Court did away with felony murder liability for accomplices, saying it violated "the principle that punishment must be proportionate to the moral blameworthiness of the offender".
Distinctions between first and second degree murder (in many states felony murder or accomplice liability) are insufficiently recognized.
Bang -- there are the momentous consequences of treble damage liability and at least theoretical felony prosecution.
The abortion procedure would be a felony and would expose the doctor to civil liability as well.
Warren's letter cited a recent SEC decision, which shielded multiple banks that had pleaded guilty to felonies from additional regulatory scrutiny, and limited their liability in fraud cases.
The felony murder rule, which has many variations, generally broadens murder liability for participants in violent felonies in two ways.
While the law would make any doctor who performs such abortions guilty of a felony, it specifically excludes the pregnant woman from any criminal liability.
But because many hazing laws did little more than duplicate existing misdemeanor or felony statutes, Chamberlin called for a new approach, one that would establish criminal liability for members of a group who did nothing to help assure the welfare of an initiate who might be seriously hurt or put in danger by hazing rites.
A company lawyer said he was seeking advice on "possible exposure" from the payments, evidently referring to potential liability for maintaining fraudulent records and bribing foreign officials, which are felonies under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
His crime is lurid enough to be a political liability for any Democrat who stands behind him, but not severe enough to draw a felony conviction, for which he would have been automatically expelled.
