Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

People who are convicted of misdemeanors are often punished with probation, community service, short jail term, or part-time imprisonment ; served on the weekends.

While serving his six month term in the jail at Woodstock, Illinois, Debs and his ARU comrades received a steady stream of letters, books, and pamphlets in the mail from socialists around the country.

He was eventually sentenced to a jail term of 10 years for trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians in an unrelated matter.

The sentence came as a shock to Slovik, who had expected a dishonorable discharge and a jail term ( the latter of which he assumed would be commuted once the war was over ), the same punishment he had seen meted out to other deserters from the division while he was confined to the stockade.

Faiz al-Amla, a Palestinian dealer from the village of Beit Ula in the Hebron Hills was convicted and sentenced to a six-month jail term as part of a plea bargain.

In California, unlicensed possession of a flame-throwing device — statutorily defined as " any non-stationary and transportable device designed or intended to emit or propel a burning stream of combustible or flammable liquid a distance of at least 10 feet " H & W 12750 ( a )— is a misdemeanor punishable with a county jail term not exceeding one year OR with a fine not exceeding $ 10, 000 ( CA H & W 12761 ).

He was tried and sentenced in record time, and is now serving a 2. 5 year long jail term in Sweden.

Fadwa took Bachelors and Masters degrees in law and was a prominent advocate in her own right on behalf of Palestinian prisoners, before becoming the leading campaigner for her husband ’ s release from his current jail term.

On the eve of Columbus Day festivities in New York, the boxer Mateo Vargas is released early from a jail term he served after he struck a police officer.

In December 2010 Clarke, in a move to cut prison numbers, said that a Conservative Party election pledge that anyone caught carrying a knife illegally could expect a jail term will not be implemented.

Clarke said he would put sentencing policy in the hands of judges, not newspaper pundits but that those guilty of using a knife illegally would face a " serious " jail term.

He had served the longest jail term that terminated in the prisoner's release.

On January 6, 2006, he pled no contest to the charge and was sentenced to a local jail term of 90 days, which was stayed, 2 years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and $ 150 per month of restitution which is applied to uninsured expenses of the victims.

The harsh treatment meted out by the authorities to the strikers and a short jail term which followed further radicalized him.

) Garrison was unable to pay the fine and was sentenced to a jail term of six months.

Ginsberg was given the option to plead insanity to avoid a jail term, and was committed for 90 days to Bellevue Hospital, where he met Carl Solomon.

* Gerard Roncoli, the head of security at the tunnel, was given a 6 month jail term plus an additional 24 months suspended sentence, the heaviest sentence levied against any of the defendants.

* Remy Chardon, former president of the French company operating the tunnel, was given a two-year suspended jail term and a fine of approximately $ 18, 000 US.

Additionally, people in Canada who run a large marijuana grow operation of at least 500 plants would risk facing a mandatory two-year jail term.

In the U. S., in contrast, non-payment of child support may be treated as a criminal offense or a civil offense, and it can result in a prison or jail term.

As his detention period exceeded the jail term, he was released by the Court after the trial.

She had actively engaged, on the side of the residents, in the ' Battle of the Bogside ', for which she served a short jail term.

Voting is open to all people entitled to vote in general parliamentary elections, which in practice means that suffrage is universal for all Austrian citizens over the age of sixteen that have not been convicted of a jail term of more than one year of imprisonment.

" Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly — which had until then had never in its 27 year history taken an editorial position on a case — published a scathing column directed at the prosecutors " who seemed unwilling to admit they might have sent innocent people to jail for crimes that had never occurred.

This seemed problematic to the Viceroys of New Spain and he was apprehended and sent to jail.

* Virginia classifies most felonies by number, ranging from Class 6 ( least severe: 1 to 5 years in prison or up to 12 months in jail ) through Class 2 ( 20 years to life, e. g., first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding ) up to Class 1 ( life imprisonment or the death penalty, reserved for certain types of murders ).

For example, the federal and state governments in the United States divide misdemeanors into several classes, with certain classes punishable by jail time and others carrying only a fine.

Ex-spouses who allow child-support obligations to go into arrears may have certain licenses seized, be found in contempt of court, and / or be sent to jail.

We believe in certain principles ; we fought for those principles, and we go to jail ostensibly for inducing a certain Alphones Schue not to register.

The county secretary in charge, Ran Guangqi ( 冉广岐 ) decided to risk his political career and certain jail term to prepare the 470, 000 residents of the county for the upcoming earthquake by ordering officials to educate the people as well as evacuate the local population to safer areas.

In an interview for a local television station, McCants compared UNC to a prison, stating, " You're not allowed to say certain things, but once you get out of jail, you're free.

The local Justices of the Peace ordered him committed to jail and Davidson was unable to find the £ 100 sureties to keep himself on bail pending an appeal because, he said, locals " were afraid of offending certain persons with whom I have got into difficulties through taking a strong line of action ".

Seven of the eight persons were fully acquitted after 160 days of hearings in court and one person received a suspended jail sentence of one year for certain acts he had admitted before the hearings started.

The town's jail and high school were both damaged while the freight station, Masonic hall, and certain sections of town were " almost literally swept from the earth.

They were a sight more comfortable than the ones in the jail with the cold air from Hirey's air conditioner coming through the grille ''.

One final act had to be performed, however: al-Fihri's general, al-Sumayl, had to be dealt with, and he was garroted in Córdoba's jail.

They note his lack of action during the Rwanda genocide and his welfare reform which some claim led to the worst child poverty since the 1960s along with the fact that the number of black people in jail increased during his administration.

Members of the band and others in the chain of distribution were charged with violating the California Penal Code on a misdemeanor charge carrying a maximum penalty of up to a year in county jail and a base fine of up to $ 2, 000.

After Imogene's death in Syn's arms ( during which she revealed to him that he had a son by her who was missing somewhere in America ), Syn fought a final duel with Tappitt in his jail cell, defeating him.

Francisco Vázquez Gómez took over the nomination, but during Madero's time in jail, Díaz was " elected " as president with an electoral vote of 196 to 187.

Dewey led a successful investigation into Luciano's lucrative prostitution operation, eventually sending Luciano to jail with a 30 – 50 year sentence.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

For a number of years Brood was in jail ( for dealing LSD ), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements ( with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse ).

In many Muslim nations, such as Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Uzbekistan and the Maldives, homosexuality is punished with jail time, fines, or corporal punishment.

" Hafed Al-Ghwell, a Libya expert and director of communications at the Dubai campus of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, commented " This is a regime with a long history of killing people in jail and then claiming it was suicide.

Journalists ' interaction with sources sometimes involves confidentiality, an extension of freedom of the press giving journalists a legal protection to keep the identity of a confidential informant private even when demanded by police or prosecutors ; withholding sources can land journalists in contempt of court, or in jail.

The county government operates the county jail, maintains township roads, operates the major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and other social services.

After spending a little more than a year in jail, he was released, along with other Congress prisoners, three days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

On June 28, 1846, Berreyesa's father, José de los Reyes Berreyesa, an elderly man, crossed the San Francisco Bay and landed near the area known as San Quentin with two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, who were 19 years old, to visit his own sons in jail.

Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Megrahi dropped the appeal and on 20 August 2009, was granted compassionate release from jail and repatriated to Libya.

Rohtul contacts one of his robots which springs him out of jail while quoting to the guard that he's " done with the room.

The jail house informant exception applies to situations where the suspect does not know that he is speaking to a state-agent ; either a police officer posing as a fellow inmate, a cellmate working as an agent for the state or a family member or friend who has agreed to cooperate with the state in obtaining incriminating information.

If an inmate is in jail and invoked Miranda on one case, it is unclear whether this extends to any other cases that they may be charged with while in custody.

For example: a subject is arrested, charged with robbery, and is held in county jail awaiting trial.

Few people ever realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs and when they are meekly submitting to authority … To permit myself to be drafted with the understanding that I am submitting to authority's demand to do something very wrong would make me frightened of myself … I am fully prepared to go to jail if I am not granted Conscientious Objector status.

Neil, charged with a DUI and vehicular manslaughter, was sentenced to 30 days in jail ( though he only served 18 days ).

Davis was then arrested and taken to jail where he was charged with feloniously assaulting an officer.

In the United States, misdemeanors are typically crimes with a maximum punishment of 12 months of incarceration, typically in a local jail as contrasted with felons, who are typically incarcerated in a prison.