Penal LawA Digest of New York's Criminal Code and Related Laws New York Penal Law - Class D Violent Felonies"Felony" means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in excess of one year may be imposed. View Class D Non-Violent Felony List...
c : a group whose members are represented in a class action d : protected class e : a group of crimes forming a category distinguished by a common characteristic (as the use of violence or the requirement for a maximum penalty) murder is a class A felony More...
An exploding prison population means nearly 5 million people are unable to vote because they have been convicted of a felony--defined as any crime that carries a sentence of a year or more in prison. Today felons and former felons are the single largest group currently barred by law from ...
Cullen, "Collateral Conse- quences of a Felony Conviction: A National Study of State Legal Codes Ten Year Later," Federal Probation 60 (3) (1996): 10–17. 15 Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, The Scale of Imprisonment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Michael Tonry, ...
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH It started off with Donald Gardner asking a group of second-graders to complete the sentence, "All I want for Christmas is..." No, no one really said they wanted their two front teeth for Christmas. But when Gardner listened to their wish...