While probation can serve as an alternative to jail in certain circumstances, it is not applicable to some cases of rape under California law. The courts cannot sentence a defendant to probation if the act involved the use or threat of force/violence or if the victim sustained great bodily ...
Racketeering conspiracy - which means illegal activity for profit that is disguised as legitimate business dealings - carries a maximum sentence of life in prison; sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion has a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 ...
The richness of the poetical/rhetorical surface of the poem in its imagery and tales is kept also simple enough to be enjoyed by any dedicated reader in its commitment to the declarative sentence structure, which seems often to prevail throughout, whle yet the complications of thought on all ...
Fantasy is not a safe place, not for that long. What if the point of life—each day an ending closer to a finale—is pushing through terror and its chain of ghosts? It turns out as soon as winter starts edging into spring, men claim you survived something extraordinary. Their lies ...
In certain cases, a conviction for statutory rape may even result in a life sentence for the defendant, depending on the facts shown at trial. As far as statutory rape crimes, the potential legal penalties and periods of imprisonment are often higher as the criminal cases involve a minor. ...
If a violent crime involved a minor or a sexual assault, an offender may get even harsher penalties for class A felonies, and repeat offenders are likely to get more severe penalties. Some states impose a mandatory life sentence or, in states that allow it, the death penalty for anyone who...
Oh, yes, I was going to point out that all this craziness that Trump, Vance and Musk (The Three Muskrateers?) are putting out there for public consumption is nothing new. Really, it’s been done before by different a-holes with different names utilizing different industries, lobbyists, fo...
In any case, I speculate that the various devotees of DIE in various orgs and corporations are writing their own corporate/activity death sentence, sooner or later.(Probably later, in the case of government bodies, as civil service hires tend to dig into the body politic like ticks and not...
One of the biggest repercussions of being caught in the act of adultery in Texas is that the offending spouse could get killed on the spot if discovered in the throws of passion by the other spouse.. Texas criminal system has long been leinient when it c
While these are criminal offenses, assault alone, unless it is in the third degree or aggravated assault, is treated as a misdemeanor crime. Such offenses typically attract a penalty of six months to one year of county jail time as opposed to a state penitentiary sentence. ...