reckless driving causes the death of another person due to gross negligence, they can be charged with vehicular homicide. This offense is a third degree felony. Upon conviction, five years imprisonment will be imposed and even more prison time awaits one who is convicted of DUI vehicular ...
In most cases, an offense of defiant trespass constitutes a misdemeanor of the third degree when the person defies an order to leave personally communicated by the owner of the premises. However, it is a misdemeanor of the first degree in Pennsylvania if the individual is on school grounds and...
Only M2 or M3 (second or third degree) misdemeanors or ungraded offenses that carry no more than 2 years as a maximum sentence No more than 3 eligible misdemeanor convictions No felony or first degree misdemeanor convictions No convictions of any of the following offenses: sexual intercourse with...
the nonfeasance in office. When a jurist is convicted of "misbehavior in office" the sentencing judge will impose the automatic forfeiture provision as a part of the sentence which can then be reviewed as any other judgment
SB 166 would allow people who have nonviolent second or third degree misdemeanors to petition to have their criminal records expunged if they have not re-offended in ten years for second degree misdemeanors or seven years in the case for third degree misdemeanors. If Senate Bill 166 is enacted...
adopted today as inferentially accepting the irresistible impulse test which we have previously expressly rejected.[4] Third, we do not here reach the question of the applicability of the principles announced herein to crimes requiring a specific intent other than murder of the first degree. ...
The term "bear arms," although included in the same sentence in which standing armies are rejected, has no exclusive militia nexus. While the framers intended in the declaration of a right to bear arms, to preserve the more controversial right to defend the state against the established (...