Definitions

1. A felony is a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, for over one year.
2. Felony - A crime of grave nature than a misdemeanor.
3. Felony - A serious criminal offense. (Web site)
4. A felony is a serious crime such as murder, rape or grand larceny.
5. FELONY - A serious criminal offense for which the minimum sentence is one year.

Premeditated Murder

1. Felony murder is typically the same grade of murder as premeditated murder.
2. The third person sat outside in the getaway car, and he was later convicted of felony murder.
3. But because he himself neither killed, attempted to kill, or intended to kill, he cannot be executed even though he is guilty of felony murder.
4. The teller's death is felony murder for all three survivors under federal, but not state law, because they were killed by a non-participant.
5. Such a killing is known as felony murder. (Web site)

Felony Murder

1. In the United States, felony murder is generally first-degree murder, and often a capital offense.
2. The jury found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation and under the felony murder rule. (Web site)
3. The officer's death is both first-degree murder for Jane, and felony murder for Joe and Mike, under both federal and state law.

Felonies

1. Jane may be charged with felony murder as a tactical matter if the ballistics are inconclusive.
2. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally responsible for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.
3. Under element (iv) felony-murder doctrine, the felony committed must be an inherently dangerous felony, such as burglary, arson, rape, robbery or kidnapping. (Web site)
4. The felonies that most commonly give rise to a felony murder charge are murder, rape, robbery, Burglary, Kidnapping, and Arson. (Web site)
5. They are convicted of 1st degree felony murder.

Preliminary Hearing

1. If you are charged with a felony, however, and the charges are not dropped, the next step is a preliminary hearing. (Web site)
2. In the felony arraignment process, the next step is a pre-preliminary hearing or a preliminary hearing.
3. Illegally controlling or conducting an enterprise through racketeering is generally a Class 3 Felony.
4. A misdemeanor DWI defendant is eligible for probation of up to two years, and a felony DWI defendant is eligible for probation of up to 10 years.
5. However, if the probationer violates “intensive probation” with a new felony offense, reinstatement may not be available.

Manslaughter

1. Malice is implied from the intent to commit the underlying felony.
2. Thus, as a matter of law, Nebraska prosecutors cannot obtain convictions for second-degree murder or manslaughter in a felony murder trial. (Web site)
3. As a matter of Nebraska law, second-degree murder is not ordinarily a lesser included offense of felony murder. (Web site)
4. Voluntary manslaughter includes killing in heat of passion or while committing a felony.
5. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and keeping a mischievous animal that killed a human being (a separate felony).

Bodily Injury

1. For instance assault causing severe bodily injury is a felony, but simple assault which leaves no lasting injury is a misdemeanor.
2. Some states also require the underlying felony to be an 'inherently' dangerous one.
3. Criminally negligent homicide is a state jail felony, and is defined as causing the death of an individual by criminal negligence.
4. In Arizona, it is a felony to possess or use of marijuana and other dangerous drugs.
5. First degree murder also includes unlawful killing during the commission of a forcible felony.

Class Misdemeanor

1. Commercial bribery ranges from a Class 5 Felony to a Class 1 Misdemeanor, depending on the value of the benefit conferred.
2. The classification of the crime for shoplifting depends on the value of the property at issue and ranges from a Class 5 Felony to a Class 1Misdemeanor.

Death Penalty

1. The death penalty may also be applied for extreme felony cases. (Web site)
2. A felony murder conviction makes a defendant eligible for the death penalty, which in Nebraska is imposed judicially, not by the trial jury. (Web site)
3. However, the death penalty may be imposed if the defendant is a major participant in the underlying felony and "exhibits extreme indifference to human life".

Criminal Defense

1. Torrance Criminal Defense Lawyers South Bay criminal defense attorneys and DUI lawyers handling all felony and misdemeanor cases.
2. Colorado, criminal offenses, criminal defense, DUI offenses, DUI defense, traffic offenses, traffic defense, felony, misdemeanor, petty offenses. (Web site)
3. Regardless of whether you are charged with a felony, misdemeanor, or minor infraction, contact our criminal defense attorneys.
4. If you have been arrested or charged with a felony white collar crime, you must act to preserve your liberty.

Jurisdictions

1. The distinction between a felony and misdemeanor has been abolished by most other common law jurisdictions (e.g.
2. In some jurisdictions (such as Victoria, Australia), the common law felony-murder rule has been abolished but replaced by a similar statutory provision.
3. In many jurisdictions, any homicide that occurs during the commission of a felony is chargeable as murder.

Second Degree

1. Manslaughter is a felony of the second degree.
2. Depending on the amount of loss, harmful access to a computer is a crime ranging from a felony of the second degree to a Class A misdemeanor.
3. Second Degree Murder: Any felony murder not a first degree murder.

Lesser

1. A person convicted of a felony may have more restrictions on their rights than a person convicted of a lesser crime.
2. The merger doctrine determined an individual's procedural rights at trial if the individual was charged with both a felony and a lesser included misdemeanor.

Convicted

1. Felony charges also bring a number of other legal repercussions if the defendant is convicted. (Web site)
2. If you have been convicted of a felony, you can lose the right to vote and to hold certain professional licenses. (Web site)
3. Carson was prosecuted and convicted of misprision of felony and sentenced to three years in prison.
4. SC, 1972 (520) Ex-felon shot and killed - felony was his possession (as ex-felon) of a shotgun, convicted of 2nd deg fm.

State Prison

1. A felony crime is punishable by one year or more in state prison or a penitentiary.
2. Misdemeanor - A criminal offense lesser than a felony and generally punishable by fine or by imprisonment other than in a penitentiary. (Web site)
3. A misdemeanor can land you in county jail for up to a year, which a felony can wind you up in state prison for more than a year. (Web site)
4. Offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony.
5. The power to define a crime and classify it as a felony, misdemeanor, or infraction rests solely with the legislature at the federal level (see U. S. v. (Web site)

Treason

1. Under the traditional categorisation of offences into treason, felonies and misdemeanours, treason felony was merely another form of felony. (Web site)
2. All treason is felony, and with the aggravation that makes it a greater offense it is rendered the most heinous of this classification of crimes. (Web site)

Assault

1. Criminal sexual assault --also known as rape--is a felony that carries with it severe penalties.
2. Gauze (Cal 1975) Felony is assault with a deadly weapon on his roommate.
3. Aggravated criminal sexual assault is first degree felony criminal sexual assault under aggravated circumstances.

Serious

1. The more serious crime of aggravated assault is treated as a felony.
2. The term felony is used in common law systems for very serious crimes, whereas misdemeanors are considered to be less serious offenses.
3. A felony crime is a more serious crime that can result in jail or prison time for more than one year. (Web site)
4. The term "serious misdemeanor" is misleading as any offense with a potential jail time over one year is a felony.
5. At Mead & Flynn, we believe in providing a strong and proactive defense for clients accused of serious felony and misdemeanor charges.

Commit Felony

1. In this case, the intention to place the victim in great bodily harm is inferred from the defendant's intent to commit the felony.
2. The attempt to commit felony by breaking into a house at night is a common law felony, called burglary. (Web site)
3. Substitute intent to commit a felony for the malice aforethought requirement.

Felony Conviction

1. In addition, some states consider a felony conviction to be grounds for an uncontested divorce. (Web site)
2. Consequences for misdemeanors and felony convictions are entirely different.

Felony Misdemeanor

1. At common law crimes are classified as either treason, felony or misdemeanor.
2. Conviction of either a felony or misdemeanor may also carry fines or probation.
3. Some vandalism crimes are referred to as ---wobblers.--- Wobblers are punishable as either a felony or a misdemeanor.

Felony

1. Like felony-murder, the -grievous harm- rule has been criticised.

Section

1. Section 5(1) created a new offence which replaced misprision and compounding of felony. (Web site)
2. In section 6 the words “ or felony ”.

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