Sentence examples for potential felony from inspiring English sources

A potential felony — which wasn't ridiculous at all.

It's only in the post-Watergate era that almost any misrepresentation to a federal official has become a potential felony.

Whoever had camped there had been cooking hot dogs and then left the fire to burn in a poorly constructed camp circle, said Ron Pugh, a Forest Service special agent who is investigating a potential felony.

However much Strange wanted to be a senator, he might have avoided a scenario so clearly rife in potential conflicts; the Senate seat amounted to a favor to a prosecutor from a man facing potential felony charges.

At one agency, the police are summoned if "there is reason to believe that a crime has been committed," while another agency does so only if a potential felony has been committed.

MINNEAPOLIS — A brother of Derek Boogaard, the hockey enforcer for the Minnesota Wild and the Rangers who died of a painkiller-and-alcohol overdose in May, faces potential felony narcotics charges in relation to his brother's death.

One of the 140 people pardoned last month by President Clinton was a businessman being investigated for new potential felonies.

A1 Pardon May Hinder New Inquiry Almon Glenn Braswell, one of the 140 people pardoned last month by President Bill Clinton, is a mail-order businessman who is being investigated for new potential felonies.

But getting the money offshore without reporting it to the proper authorities is still a minefield of potential felonies.

Prosecutors originally classified the criminal allegations against the officer as potential felonies, but eventually dropped the case.

Penalties for common drug and theft crimes in California will be reduced from potential felonies to misdemeanors, shortening the time some offenders spend behind bars.