Sentence examples for low felony from inspiring English sources

"That's the low felony on the totem pole.

Class IV is the lowest felony charge under Illinois law.

"If Mr. Hynes spent less time playing politics and more time keeping our streets safe in the face of rising violent crime, his office's reputation wouldn't be tarnished by prosecutorial misconduct or the lowest felony conviction rate in the city," Mr. Thompson's campaign spokesman, James Freedland, said.

At his arraignment, prosecutors had charged Mr. Acevedo, 44, with criminally negligent homicide, a low-level felony.

"Obstruction of justice is a low-level felony that more than likely would have meant probation," Mr. Romley said.

Under the statute, the third offense that could result in a life sentence could be any number of low-level felony convictions, like stealing a jack from the back of a tow truck, shoplifting a pair of work gloves from a department store, pilfering small change from a parked car or passing a bad check.

"The public will say, 'What the heck is a 17-year-old who's shooting people doing in the juvenile system?' " According to a recent report by the Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition, the vast majority of direct file cases in Colorado since 1999 have involved mid- to low-level felony convictions, often against teenagers who had never been held in the juvenile system.

Mr. Deonarine said outside the courtroom that the juror he spoke to told him that the jury could not reach a consensus on any charge higher than criminally negligent homicide, a low-level felony, but that they felt that in order to live with themselves they needed to convict on a higher charge.

47, for the first time, hundreds of thousands of Californians have a new opportunity to remove old, low-level felony convictions from their criminal records.

NXIVM, whose top members are now awaiting trial for sex trafficking, racketeering and other charges, had accused Bouchey of defamation and breach of client confidentiality, and she was still fighting low-level felony charges for allegedly accessing their computer servers using a former client's login credentials.

For low-level felonies, the maximum penalty would increase by three years.