If a grocery store owner sells a bottle of wine in Tennessee today, he or she could sit behind bars for 11 months and 29 days, get a $2,500 fine, or receive both penalties. It's now a Class A misdemeanor. It has been against the law since Prohibition.
MADISON (AP) - A person who kills someone with a car after his driver's license has been revoked would face criminal penalties under a bill Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law Friday. Current state law doesn't lay out any criminal consequences for killing or hurting someone while driving after revocation. Now, causing great bodily harm or killing someone will be a Class A misdemeanor, the most serious level of misdemeanor in the state punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and nine months in jail.
Four months after police detained him in a late-night altercation with his girlfriend on the side of the freeway, Phoenix city prosecutors filed misdemeanor domestic violence charges against Sen. Scott Bundgaard. Prosecutors charged the ousted Senate majority leader with reckless endangerment, a Class 1 misdemeanor, and reckless assault, a Class 2 misdemeanor. Both were designated as domestic violence offenses.
[...] Section 76- 10-2801 of the Utah Criminal Code titled, Vehicle compartment for contraband- penalties, makes it a class A misdemeanor for a person "to knowingly possess, use, or control a vehicle which has a compartment with the intent to store, conceal or transport contraband." [...] even if prosecution is unlikely, investigating hide installers can provide vital intelligence regarding drug trafficking organizations.
Recently, Monroe County Legislators Mike Barker and Carmen Gumina proposed legislation that would make cyberbullying a crime. Under the bill, cyberbullying directed toward a minor would constitute a Class A misdemeanor in Monroe County, punishable by up to a year in jail. The crime of cyberbullying would occur where the defendant engaged in the following conduct: "(W)ith intent to harass, annoy, threaten or place another in fear of personal injury, engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts of abusive behavior over a period of time by communication or causing a communication to be sent by mechanical or electronic means, posting statements or images on the Internet, through a computer network, or via cell or smart phone. Acts of abusive behavior shall include, but not ...
More details emerged from Gary Pinkel's drunken-driving arrest after he pleaded guilty yesterday to a Class B misdemeanor. I'm not a scumbag. ... You have to do what you're doing. I respect that. My whole world will change.
A South Portland man who collected campaign contributions for former Democratic gubernatorial candidate John G. Richardson of Brunswick pleaded guilty Monday to making false statements about the donations. Joseph Pickering, 54, of Harbor View Avenue pleaded guilty to five counts of unsworn falsification - a Class D misdemeanor - in Cumberland County Superior Court.
Missouri football Coach Gary Pinkel pleaded guilty to a Class B misdemeanor charge for driving while intoxicated this morning in Boone County circuit court and was given a 30-day suspended sentence in Boone County Jail, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Cassandra Rogers said. Instead Pinkel will serve two years unsupervised probation. Document
A former Evansville Police Department officer has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge that led to his resignation. Jason Henry appeared in Vanderburgh County Misdemeanor Court on Feb. 11 and pleaded guilty as charged to a class A misdemeanor of battery.
FARMINGTON -- Four people arrested in connection with an Earth First! protest of a TransCanada wind energy construction site in northern Franklin County in July 2010 are expected to go to a jury trial in Franklin County Superior Court on Monday. Willow Cordes-Eklund of Minneapolis, Erik Gillard of Montpelier, Vt.; and Ana Rodriguez of Lake Worth, Fla., were charged with failure to disperse, a Class D misdemeanor.
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