Sentence examples for severe felonies from inspiring English sources

In a legal dispute involving a corporate client (which he declines to name) and the United States attorney's office, he gave all the possible outcomes a score on a scale from zero (one misdemeanor count) to 100 (multiple felony charges including several specific, severe felonies).

Following the twin narratives that NAFTA has caused severe loss of US manufacturing jobs (but perhaps not as many as claimed), and that illegal immigrants have either voted illegally (against him, or so he has said) or committed severe felonies that threaten the security of American citizens (which they do, but no more often than US citizens), the US president has aimed his policies at Mexico.

The final agreement would be closer to 80 (one count of the severe felony plus several lesser felonies).

"The severe felony punishment and sex offender registration imposed on Wilson make no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment," she wrote.

The suicide of the girl, Phoebe Prince, and the circumstances surrounding it attracted wide attention after prosecutors brought unusually severe felony charges and because of the poignant story of Ms. Prince, a newly arrived Irish immigrant who hanged herself after what the prosecutor described as months of bullying.

Kentucky only uses the pronoun "he" in its statutes for first- and second-degree rape, and unless the assault involves intercourse or sodomy, it's considered a less severe felony.

To make a real impact, I have proposed that the Legislature upgrade the most serious felony sex offenses, subjecting the most serious offenders, including child molesters, to severe penalties with a maximum of life in prison and lifetime parole supervision.

In "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," a Christmas-stirred Sherlock Holmes shows his gentler side when he saves an endangered soul, makes less severe a felony and plucks the Countess of Morcar's stolen jewel from the innards of a Christmas goose.

Serious felony arrests were rare.

Roughly 30% of all cohort members were arrested at least once, many for serious felony charges.

"Severe delays" in felony cases were to be expected, he wrote later in a ruling in the Hooks case.