Sentence examples for persons offense from inspiring English sources

The charges were reduced to simple hazing, a disorderly persons offense.

Mr. Loriquet characterized defiant trespass as a "petty disorderly persons offense" that carried a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail.

Each count carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine and is treated as the equivalent of a disorderly persons offense, a misdemeanor.

It is a "petty disorderly persons offense," said Paul M. Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County district attorney's office, explaining that such an offense did not qualify to be prosecuted in federal court and only carries a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail.

New Jersey first established drunk driving laws in 1909, making it a disorderly persons offense (misdemeanor).

The state underage drinking statute is a disorderly persons offense (misdemeanor), which upon conviction is punishable by up to 6 months in jail (rarely imposed), a $500 $1000 fine, and a mandatory 6-month suspension of the person's driver's license.

He was also a part-time municipal judge in South Hackensack, where he handled matters like traffic ticket cases and disorderly persons offenses.

According to The Star-Ledger of Newark, Britt pleaded not guilty in July to three disorderly persons offenses, and a trial date was set for Sept. 20 in Hoboken, N.J.

In 1992 he was convicted of a disorderly person offense, a misdemeanor, for a punch he threw at a beefy Essex County corrections officer who Mr. Santiago said had shoved and threatened his diminutive fiancée.

One person's prank is another person's offense, it's easy to cross a line, and context is everything.

That information would be posted online, along with information on the person's offense.