Albert became the focus of a media frenzy in 1997, Albert went on trial for felony charges of forcible sodomy.

In 2010, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas denounced the new state Republican Party platform that supported criminalization of sodomy and making same-sex marriage a felony.

For example, premeditated murder is listed among " homicide ," graded as a first degree felony ; and " unnatural sex ," including sodomy, is listed among " sexual offences ," graded as a petty misdemeanor.

During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

To protect the suspect's due-process rights in felony cases ( where the suspect's interest in liberty is at stake ), there is usually a preliminary hearing, at which a judge determines whether there was probable cause to arrest the suspect who is in custody.

Unlike most European court system ( in both common law and civil law countries ), it is unusual in American state courts to reserve very serious crimes for a court different than the one that handles all other felony cases in a given county.

Pursuant to article 6 of the State Security Act of Chile ( Decreto No. 890 de 1975 ), it is a felony against the public order to publicly mistreat the flag, the coat of arms, the name of the motherland or the national anthem.

Under English law, a criminal condemned for a serious crime, whether treason or felony ( but not misdemeanour, which referred to less serious crimes ), could be declared " attainted ", meaning that his civil rights were nullified: he could no longer own property or pass property to his family by will or testament.

As Attorney General, Jackson supported a bill introduced by Sam Hobbs that would have legalized wiretapping by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), or any other government agency, if it was suspected that a felony was occurring.

Finally, if any person break and enter a dwelling house while said dwelling is occupied, either in the day or nighttime, with intent to commit any misdemeanor except assault and battery or trespass ( which falls under the previous paragraph ), shall be guilty of a class 6 felony.

Crucially ( and this can be seen as the purpose of the statute ), any subsequent employer of such an indentured servant or slave, who was in fact bound to service of labor to a pre-existing master, would be chargeable with misprision-of-a-felony ( if it was proved in they knew that the employee was still indentured to a master, or owned as a slave ); and chargeable as an accessory-after-the-fact, in the felony, with the servant or slave ; in helping them, by employing them, in the unlawfully taking that which was lawfully bound ( through the master servant relationship ) in exclusive right, to the master of the indentured servant or slave.

Examples of inchoate offenses include conspiracy, solicitation, facilitation, misprision of felony ( and misprision generally ), organized crime, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), and attempt, as well as some public health crimes ; see the list below.

Mark Fuhrman ( born February 5, 1952 ), a convicted criminal and former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ), is known for his part in the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and his subsequent felony conviction for perjury.

Initially investigated as a terrorist threat ( a felony ), Haim's charge was downgraded to the misdemeanor of exhibiting a replica handgun in a threatening manner.

A willful attempt to evade or defeat a tax imposed by the Act is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $ 100, 000 fine ($ 500, 000 in the case of a corporation or trust ), under the general tax evasion statute.

), Senator Ensign — a veterinarian — was a lead sponsor of the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act, which makes it a felony to transport animals across state lines for the purpose of fighting.

The words " arrestable offence " were substituted for the word " felony ", in subsections ( 1 ) and ( 2 ), by section 10 ( 1 ) of, and paragraph 12 ( 1 ) of Schedule 2 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967.

: Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $ 100, 000 ($ 500, 000 in the case of a corporation ), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

In most cases where " self-defense " is substantiated through the legal system, reduced charges ( i. e. felony reduced to misdemeanor ), reduced prison sentence, or acquittal are usually ruled.

Similarly, penalties for violation may be greater if a subsequent offense is of greater severity ( such as a felony, following a misdemeanor ), or if the original offense and subsequent offense are of the same type ( such as a battery following an assault, or retail theft following retail theft ).

Under laws passed during the reign of Elizabeth I, it was high treason for an individual to attempt to defend the jurisdiction of the Pope over the English Church for a third time ( a first offence being a misdemeanour and a second offence a felony ), or for a Roman Catholic priest to enter the realm and refuse to conform to the English Church, or to purport to release a subject of his allegiance to the Crown or the Church of England and to reconcile him or her with a foreign power.

; First degree homicide by vehicle: This is a felony, that upon conviction will result in a sentence of between 3 and 15 years of imprisonment ( or between 5 and 20 years for habitual violators ), with no parole for at least 1 year.

In some jurisdictions ( such as Victoria, Australia ), the common law felony murder rule has been abolished, but has been replaced by a similar statutory provision.

To counter the common law style interpretations of what does and does not merge with murder ( and thus what does not and does qualify for felony murder ), many jurisdictions in the United States explicitly list what offenses qualify.

Nevertheless s. 229 ( c ), which provides for a form of constructive felony murder in situations where " an accused for an unlawful object did anything knowing that it was likely an objective standard to cause someone's death " is still operative, as confirmed in a 1999 appellate court decision.

Every woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, shall unlawfully administer to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or shall unlawfully use any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, and whosoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman whether she be or be not with child, shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully use any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable.

A plea bargain ( Strafbefehl ) is not applicable for felony crimes at all.

" Gideon v. Wainwright,, explicitly overruled Betts v. Brady and found that counsel must be provided to indigent defendants in all felony cases.

One point of view is that pit bulls are a public safety issue that merits actions such as banning ownership, mandatory spay / neuter for all pit bulls, mandatory microchip implants and liability insurance, or prohibiting people convicted of a felony from owning pit bulls.

Superior court hears all juvenile criminal cases and all adult felony cases.

* The Court of Common Pleas handles the bulk of the county's caseload, including all felony criminal cases, and civil cases of all kinds involving claims typically in excess of $ 15, 000 or claims for injunctive relief, as well as appeals from state agencies.

* The county prosecuting attorney and his staff prosecute felony offenses, along with all misdemeanor, criminal and traffic offenses in violation of the Ohio Revised Code.

Today lynching is a felony in all states of the United States, defined by some codes of law as " Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person ," with a " mob " being defined as " the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another.

The United States Supreme Court considered, in the spring of 2012, the question of whether or not minors should be sentenced, at least automatically, to life without parole for any crime at all, including the only cases stated above in which it was at that time an option: first-degree murder with aggravating factors ( felony murder, where life without parole was then given as an option to juveniles, and where an adult in the same context could be charged with capital murder and given life or the death penalty ).

' said the foreman, ' sedition, treason, or felony, it is all the same to us.

Formerly, commoners were entitled to thirty-five peremptory challenges in cases of treason, but only twenty in cases of felony and none in cases of misdemeanours ; all peremptory challenges, however, were abolished in 1988.

Civil death ( Latin: civiliter mortuus ) is a term that refers to the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights.

* Virginia-Virginia Circuit Court-court of record that has appellate jurisdiction over a county's general district court and juvenile and domestic relations court and original jurisdiction over major civil cases and all the county's felony cases.

They declared themselves " ennobled in blood ," and suggested that no peerage could be extinguished except by an Act of Parliament, upon the extinction of all heirs to it, or upon forfeiture for treason or felony.

In England and Wales, the definition of murder requires only an intent to cause grievous bodily harm to the victim, rather than specific intent to kill ; the effect is the same as that of the felony murder rule applied to crimes of personal violence, though not to all felonies.

Some states require all three felony convictions to be for violent crimes in order for the mandatory sentence to be pronounced, while California mandates the enhanced sentence for any third felony conviction so long as the first two felonies were deemed to be either " violent " or " serious ," or both.

In 1867, the Attorney-General for Ireland, Hedges Eyre Chatterton, issued guidelines to regulate which cases ought to be tried at tried at assizes rather than quarter sessions: treason, murder, treason felony, rape, perjury, assault with intent to murder, party processions, election riots, and all offences of a political or insurrectionary character.

One point of view is that certain dog breeds are a public safety issue that merits actions such as banning ownership, mandatory spay / neuter for all dogs of these breeds, mandatory microchip implants and liability insurance, or prohibiting people convicted of a felony from owning them.

Today all but a few states deny the right to vote to those who have been convicted of a felony at any point in their past ( voting rights are, in some cases, restored via executive ( on the state or federal level ) pardon ).

On December 18, 2003, Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent, in order to commit that felony, in February and March 2003, all regarding the same boy under 14.