Brett Heckman, the defense lawyer, said he believed that the "culpability didn't rise to the level of felony" and that Mr. Hall was "heroic" for fighting the charges.
Virginia, Iowa, Kentucky, and Florida still allow permanent disenfranchisement, and 44 other states permit some level of felony disenfranchisement.
For example, if today's levels of felony disenfranchisement existed during the very close Nixon-Kennedy race in 1960, Richard Nixon may well have been elected.
He has trouble with the idea of raising a foolish outburst to the level of a felony.
"I get that the eggs don't seem that significant, but it does rise to the level of a felony," he said.
"I get that the eggs don't seem that significant, but it does rise to the level of a felony," Lt David Thompson told reporters.
The district attorney's office said Wednesday that the beating does not rise to the level of a felony because investigators could not determined who started the confrontation, the Associated Press reported.
In addition to calling for special units at all hospitals, the bill would require attacks by patients that cause injury and rise to a level of misdemeanor or felony assault to be referred to the local district attorney.
They also support recent actions by Cook County, Ill., Santa Clara, Calif., and San Francisco, all of which decided this year to stop adhering to federal requests to hold undocumented immigrants who were either low-level offenders or were accused of felonies.
This was due to restrictive voter identification laws, district gerrymandering and state-level laws that disenfranchise people convicted of felonies, it said.
The proposed registries in Tennessee and California would include only adult and convicted offenders of felony level animal abuse.
