Sentence examples for summary offense from inspiring English sources

We anticipate that this matter will be treated as a summary offense".

Two protesters were convicted of obstructing a highway, a misdemeanor; another was convicted of a summary offense.

Brian Githens, 20, was charged in November with felony burglary, misdemeanor simple assault and criminal mischief, a summary offense, court records indicated.

Mr Weitzman said he expects the case to be treated as a summary offense, which is the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States.

On June 15 , 2011 the felony charge was reduced to a non-reportable summary offense for trespassing and NYLife permitted Tillett to resume his registered representative position.

The pair was originally charged with criminal theft of service charges; those charges were dropped, and instead, Hamlet Garcia was charged with a summary offense of knowingly and illegally enrolling a child in a school outside of the district.

Crimes in England are classified into indictable offenses (which may be tried by a jury) and summary offenses (which may be tried summarily without juries).

In England crimes are classified as either summary offenses, which are tried by magistrates' courts, or indictable offenses, for which there is a right to a jury trial.

Courts of petty sessions, or magistrate's courts, have jurisdiction over all summary offenses and certain indictable offenses at the option of the defendant.

It can feel easy to scoff at these crimes: most of the relevant laws, nationwide, are summary offenses ("infractions" in California; "violations" in some other states), which means that they can't directly result in any jail or prison time.

A handful of people are still in prison on IPPs for "summary motoring offenses" — driving offenses so minor they could be tried in the magistrates' courts without a jury.