"trivial offense" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to a minor or insignificant violation of a rule or law. Example: The judge dismissed the case as it was only a trivial offense and the defendant showed genuine remorse for their actions.
A trivial offense, if offense it was, was followed by an outsized, politically tinged overreaction.
The scientific community is suffering as a result of the treatment of the Guttenberg case as a trivial offense.
He felt a decided antipathy for this form of life and deliberately engineered his own expulsion for some trivial offense in 1868.
These folks are wasting precious time, sweat and treasure for what amounts to (if it even happened) a really trivial offense".
"Sexual harassment is all too often viewed as a trivial offense, taken as a misunderstanding of the situation because 'it was meant as a compliment,' " said Sarah Elsuni, an interim professor for public law and gender studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Here in Los Angeles, officers frequently arrest individuals without photo identification for trivial offenses like jaywalking.
Traffic police are widely known for setting up checkpoints to extract bribes over trivial offenses, while largely ignoring dangerous driving.
Some had committed serious crimes; others, like Ms. Gehris, were marked for deportation for trivial offenses committed long ago.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole, for example, has pardoned 150 people who would otherwise have been deported for trivial offenses.
But many of the affected aliens have been convicted of trivial offenses, and the issue was whether they could get into court just once.
"When there are really trivial offenses in the criminal system, they get ignored," said Patrick Griffin, a senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice, in Pittsburgh.
