The crime is gender-neutral, and contains no age exemption for putative defendants; whether the perpetrator is male or female, 14 or 40, it is still a felony.
Such action constitutes a felony.
For the week beginning April 17, more than 9000 fugitives were arrested and more than 10,000 felony warrants were closed.
In 2006 protesters filled city streets after the House of Representatives passed a bill making illegal immigration a felony; but the proposal failed to pass muster in the Senate.
What makes California’s law so controversial is that, whereas the previous felony has to be “serious or violent”, the latest crime need not be.
However, what may be a misdemeanor in one state could be a felony in another.
But he's now facing new felony charges.
This is usually counted as a misdemeanour, but a prosecutor in Los Angeles got it classed as a felony.
Crucially the term misdemeanor did not mean a distinct set of crimes as opposed to felony it referred instead to bad ACTS in the form of exceptionally serious public misconduct.
Koch’s refinery unit pleaded guilty in 2001 to a federal felony charge of lying to regulators and paid $20 million in fines and penalties.
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