Sentences with phrase «period of a misdemeanor»

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Rape is up nearly 5 percent citywide through the end of September and misdemeanor sex assaults are up more than 10 percent during the same period.

In addition to felony convictions, certain specific misdemeanor convictions can also take away your right to possess firearms for a period of 10 years, such as a conviction for domestic violence, battery, resisting arrest or obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties.

Kentucky passed kind of sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time, basically ever, in Kentucky, people with old, low level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply after a certain period of time to have the conviction vacated and then expunged, meaning the conviction will be voided from their record as though it never happened and then it will be removed from the public databases and presumably it's not supposed to show up in private background checks as well for pre-employment screenings.

So, if I could have just a minute, Kentucky passed sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time basically ever in Kentucky, people with old low - level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply, after a certain period of time, to have the conviction vacated and then expunged.

Depending upon the particular campaign finance law involved, which isn't clearly specified, there might be a criminal penalty (either a misdemeanor or a minor felony) as well, which could give rise to a probation sentence, a sentence to some period of incarceration, a period of post-release parole, criminal fines, court costs, and, at least in the case of a felony, some collateral consequences of that conviction such as a prohibition on owning a gun and ineligibility for many occupations and jobs.

The lawsuit charged that New York State's decision to abdicate responsibility for public defense to its counties resulted in a patchwork of often understaffed, poorly resourced and largely dysfunctional public defense systems where defendants were routinely arraigned without attorneys, urged to take plea bargains regardless of the facts of their cases, burdened by excessively high bail, and incarcerated for shockingly long periods for misdemeanors and petty crimes.