Sentence examples for lesser misdemeanours from inspiring English sources
It is easy to see why taxpayers should not be asked fully to compensate victims who go on to commit very serious offences, particularly violent offences, but routinely to reduce compensation for victims of sexual abuse because of much lesser misdemeanours is unjustified.
The lesser misdemeanour of wilfully exposing someone to HIV carries a sentence of several months.
One possibility is the prosecution could drop the three felony charges in a plea bargain in which the defence accepts the four lesser misdemeanour charges - and a maximum one year in jail.
If Mr Clinton's offences fall short of "high crimes and misdemeanours", they might draw a lesser punishment.
Six Greenpeace members were charged with misdemeanours.
"The back catalogue of my past misdemeanours".
Definitely misdemeanours on an aircraft [laughs].
Anything else is lesser".
What other misdemeanours are now punishable by death?
U.S. jurisdictions generally distinguish between felonies and misdemeanours.
