Sentences with phrase «prosecutions of misdemeanor»

The NADCL report also found a sharp increase in the number of prosecutions of misdemeanor cases over the past three decades.

Prosecutions of this misdemeanor crap is a pointless.

Not exact matches

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine offered nine recommendations, including upgrading misdemeanor illegal dumping and sand mining charges to felonies and changing the definitions of both practices in the law to make prosecutions easier.

BTW - I don't have any proof of # 2, so I will accept an answer that - with specific numbers - disproves # 1 - 3 by showing that the arrest and prosecution rates for non-immigration felonies / misdemeanors are as low as those for illegal immigration.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office, promising to seek «equal and fair justice» for the borough's vulnerable foreign - born residents, has created a policy that tailors prosecutions to avoid, when possible, the deportation or detention of immigrants charged with certain misdemeanors or nonviolent crimes.

We remember Crimes and Misdemeanors (which this film most resembles in tone); now here's a savage prosecution of the 1 percent.

Prosecution of petty misdemeanor cases such as curfew violations or turnstile jumping is robbing taxpayers of millions of dollars each year, concludes the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in its latest report, «Minor Crimes, Massive Waste.»

A median state misdemeanor rate of 3,544 cases per 100,000 citizens indicates that taxpayers are burdened with paying the costs of more than 10 million misdemeanor prosecutions per year, the report said.

In criminal cases, a judge will be reluctant to give a stay of adjudication without prosecutor approval (or finding an abuse of prosecutorial discretion) but in petty misdemeanor traffic cases judges are more willing despite prosecution opposition.

Wasn't prosecution of «high crimes and misdemeanors» (aka impeachment) in Congress's own job...

In many states, a victim will have to press charges on misdemeanor crimes, but not on felonies, in most states different classes of crime are handled differently with regards to charging rules (automatic charging in domestic violence cases, even with a victim that's hostile to police or prosecution action, for example), and in every state, law enforcement resources are limited, so a crime with an uncooperative victim generally loses priority for enforcement.

Pretrial Diversion DUI Tier II is a deferred prosecution program for selected misdemeanor / misdemeanor DUI offenders, offered by the Office of the State Attorney and supervised by Orange County Community Corrections.

Pretrial Diversion DUI Tier I is a deferred prosecution program for selected misdemeanor / misdemeanor DUI offenders, offered by the Office of the State Attorney and supervised by Orange County Community Corrections.

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