Moreover, the initiative reduces several felonies to misdemeanors and misdemeanors to infractions.
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They have to have a clean criminal record with no felony conviction, no major misdemeanors, and no more than three petty misdemeanors.
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" The Constitution says presidents can be impeached for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," but it does not define "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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To be eligible, veterans must have served at least 180 days in the armed forces and have no convictions for felonies, significant misdemeanors or more than three non-significant misdemeanors.
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He faces 3 charges -- 1 felony and 2 misdemeanors.
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Avery has some history with misdemeanors — can we not?
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Misdemeanors typically come with the threat of heavy fines and fees and the threat of incarceration if you can't pay — and many individuals charged with misdemeanors end up in a cycle of debt.
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Incredibly, the law did not distinguish between felonies and misdemeanors.
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He's also facing two counts of child endangerment -- both misdemeanors.
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It reminds me, do you ever see "Crimes and Misdemeanors"?
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She's facing charges of assault and reckless endangerment ... both misdemeanors.
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"We determine what is 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' " she said.
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But what would "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" mean in practice?
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At 19, he pled nolo contendere to two simultaneous misdemeanors.
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The man was only charged with misdemeanors and a violation.
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Most of those cases have involved felony charges, not misdemeanors.
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First, Donald Trump gets accused of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.
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In February, Illinois State Representative Laura Fine, a Democrat, introduced two bills that would raise the age of adult criminal responsibility to 21, one just for misdemeanors, and one for both misdemeanors and felonies.
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While the hate crimes statute in Utah can be applied only to misdemeanors, it is not the case that misdemeanors in the state are bumped up to felonies when they are classified as hate crimes.
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Both were acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors by the Senate.
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For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
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For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
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But was high crimes and misdemeanors truly less vague than maladministration?
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For misdemeanors, they spent two hours when 12 hours were necessary.
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An elimination of cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent crimes.
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But risking lives to chase people suspected of misdemeanors is not.
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Within hours, Brooks would announce Bentley had pleaded down to misdemeanors.
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The court's judges typically preside over misdemeanors and small-claims cases.
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Fowler was arrested for 2 misdemeanors ... simple battery and criminal mischief.
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Shailene was arrested for 2 misdemeanors ... including engaging in a riot.
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In fact, most of the misdemeanors are related to traffic incidents.
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She's facing charges for battery and resisting an officer ... both misdemeanors.
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But since she's facing 2 misdemeanors ... we smell a plea deal.
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He faces several misdemeanors including two counts of second-degree intimidation.
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Venice has struggled with multiple tourist-related misdemeanors in recent years.
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Impeachable offenses – high crimes and misdemeanors – need not be indictable offenses.
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All three men were charged with class one misdemeanors on Friday.
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The last — groping someone's intimate parts without consent — are generally misdemeanors.
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They should have been charged with Class C Misdemeanors (citations) & released.
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Shortly after Strange's appointment, Bentley resigned, pleading guilty to two misdemeanors.
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He's also been charged with several misdemeanors including trespassing in February.
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The four passengers on the power boat were charged with misdemeanors.
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To tackle bureaucratic delays, he introduced new civil courts for misdemeanors.
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"Only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment," Trump tweeted.
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He pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors and paid a $300 fine.
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He was charged with assault, obstruction and disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors.
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That includes people charged with misdemeanors, battery, assault and domestic violence.
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Pena Rodriguez, convicted of three misdemeanors, said he was wrongly accused.
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Which misdemeanors would remain eligible for arrest is not known, however.
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SB 299 created two Class A misdemeanors tied to drone use.
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Cash bail will be eliminated for most misdemeanors and nonviolent crimes.
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There's been an increase in those who have no misdemeanors whatsoever.
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Right now, we have passed bail reform, but only for nonviolent misdemeanors.
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Where the Democrats sense high crimes and misdemeanors, Republicans smell naked politics.
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Bari's also been charged with 5 misdemeanors ... including possession of drug paraphernalia.
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He was convicted of two misdemeanors stemming from incidents there in 2015.
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Again, I know that sometimes there are real high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The paraphernalia charges are misdemeanors, but the cocaine charge is a felony.
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Are there high crimes and misdemeanors involved that could lead to impeachment?
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The Constitution provides criteria for impeachment; treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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" She said it is a "delicate balance" in considering "crimes and misdemeanors.
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Spectators at animal fighting events also can be charged with federal misdemeanors.
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There are Carry On–esque misdemeanors and then horrific stories of rape.
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Mr. Gwinn tried 21 cases in a row, all domestic violence misdemeanors.
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The law requires all people convicted of misdemeanors to go to jail.
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Both are second-degree misdemeanors, Chronister said at a press conference Monday.
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Many states allow non-unanimous verdicts for misdemeanors and less serious crimes.
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The Constitution's standard for impeachment — "high crimes and misdemeanors" — is deliberately vague.
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" Mason therefore proposed substituting "other high crimes and misdemeanors against the State.
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The changes in the law included adding a list of serious misdemeanors.
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She didn't think what he'd done amounted to high crimes and misdemeanors.
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He has not been arrested on the charges, both classified as misdemeanors.
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Democrats will bellow of scandal, treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Mason suggested "high crimes and misdemeanors against the State" as a substitute.
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What is this if not an investigation into high crimes and misdemeanors?
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John Kasich reduced her two convictions to misdemeanors, reports the Journal Beacon.
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The final impeachable offenses — high crimes and misdemeanors — are perhaps the vaguest.
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These are infractions within the school, small amounts of marijuana, some misdemeanors.
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The Constitution just lists "high crimes and misdemeanors" as cause for impeachment.
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"We're leaving (misdemeanors) up to judicial discretion," Valdez told the local paper.
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It's not fully decriminalizing drugs, since drug possession offenses will remain misdemeanors.
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While the U.S. population commits misdemeanors and felonies at a rate 85033 times higher than police, police are convicted of misdemeanors and felonies at about six times the average rate for concealed handgun permit holders in Florida and Texas.
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They also face misdemeanors of misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty.
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Banks have been fined US$10bn for misdemeanors between 2008 and October 2013.
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We're told the 2 felonies will eventually become misdemeanors once he completes probation.
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It convicted the Sens of misdemeanors involving introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce.
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He had never been convicted of anything more serious than driving-related misdemeanors.
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The Colorado resident was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors.
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The statutes are tighter for misdemeanors, which is usually how prosecutors classify groping.
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They are both charged with misconduct in office, a felony, and other misdemeanors.
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These misdemeanors are often indicative of neighborhoods that are predisposed to violent crime.
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They face charges -- some misdemeanors, some felonies -- related to looting, vandalism and assault.
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I don't think this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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What the Constitution says is 'high crimes and misdemeanors' and we define that.
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The verdict, handed down by the misdemeanors court in Giza, can be appealed.
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This year has already seen a bumper crop of Christmas torts and misdemeanors.
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Harassment isn't one of the misdemeanors that bar a person from gun ownership.
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Oklahoma voters approved a ballot measure downgrading some drug-related felonies to misdemeanors.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors" was the compromise, but it was never clearly defined.
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The characters of "The Good Place" ended up in hell for relative misdemeanors.
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Steven pleaded guilty to one of the misdemeanors and received a $500 fine.
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" An 1828 dictionary defined "misdemeanors" to include "ill behavior; evil conduct; fault; mismanagement.
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Second, do they rise to the level of impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors?
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The sentence for the misdemeanors could vary based on a defendant's prior convictions.
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They'll define key phrases like obstruction of justice and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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For the 5 misdemeanors he was given a total of 60 months probation.
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Issue 1 would have changed that, reducing all drug possession offenses to misdemeanors.
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There are also drug offenses that have been reduced from felonies to misdemeanors.
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Under Michigan law, someone with a felony offense and no more than two misdemeanor offenses can ask the convicting court to set aside the felony; someone with two misdemeanors and no felonies can apply to have those misdemeanors set aside.
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And, of course, they define, Congress define what is are high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The misdemeanors have maximum penalties of 180 days in prison and a $1,000 fine.
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She also was charged with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct and damage to real property.
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The misdemeanors have maximum penalties of 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
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Online court records showed a range of charges against Smith, many of them misdemeanors.
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Last month, he had pleaded guilty to 13 misdemeanors in connection with the crash.
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Artis was charged Tuesday with sexual battery and assault on a female, both misdemeanors.
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Class A misdemeanors in Illinois are punishable by less than one year in prison.
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First, the allegation of impeachable offenses, including "high crimes and misdemeanors" must be made.
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The drug counts are felonies, while the battery and delaying arrest charges are misdemeanors.
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Her ex-husband was charged with a few misdemeanors and two felonies, she wrote.
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The lawmaker did not have to resign his seat because the charges were misdemeanors.
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The House investigates the president for high crimes and misdemeanors and votes to impeach.
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The initiative, Proposition 473, lowered criminal sentences by reducing them to misdemeanors from felonies.
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"It's the type of corruption that's part of high crimes and misdemeanors," he said.
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" That clause, however, was ultimately rejected in favor of "other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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She was arrested and booked in October for assault and reckless endangerment ... both misdemeanors.
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It does provide for the removal of a president for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Swearing to impeach Trump without any evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors isn't either.
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This disparity has been attributed in part to his office's zealous prosecution of misdemeanors.
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"If there was human trafficking, these men would face more than misdemeanors," he said.
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He pleaded guilty to misdemeanors in both cases and was fined and given probation.
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Promises: To prosecute retail theft cases involving less than $1,000 of merchandise as misdemeanors.
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Mason then suggested "high crimes and misdemeanors," which the convention accepted for the Constitution.
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Mason then suggested "other high crimes and misdemeanors," the compromise that was then accepted.
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Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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First witness says Trump's actions 'clearly' constitute 'high crimes and misdemeanors' 10:48 a.m.
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It's worth remembering that unlike "high crimes and misdemeanors," treason is a capital offense.
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He awoke in a small, concrete cell, charged with three felonies and two misdemeanors.
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Furthermore, SB 992 outlines several prohibitions for drones, all of which classify as misdemeanors.
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It's led to a flood of immigrants being criminally charged with illegal entry misdemeanors.
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His criminal history includes two out-of-state misdemeanors from more than 20 years ago.
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The law in question eliminates cash bail for most misdemeanors and some nonviolent felony crimes.
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For misdemeanors, Florida criminal procedure provides for a case to be initiated in two ways.
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But the bigger lesson is that "misdemeanors" did not mean then what it means now.
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Currently, federal law prohibits those sales to a married partner convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors.
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Officials charged her with three misdemeanors: public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a cop.
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He was charged this week with sexual battery and assault on a female -- both misdemeanors.
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Disarming an officer is a felony, but the other charges are misdemeanors, according to KSTU.
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Officials charged her with three misdemeanors: public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a cop.
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We're told Cardi will likely be charged with 2 misdemeanors -- reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
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She serves as the county attorney, prosecuting misdemeanors and advising county commissioners on legal matters.
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A handful of states even criminalize the act of faithless voting through fines or misdemeanors.
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The regulation would bar immigrants from receiving asylum if they commit two or three misdemeanors.
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In 1985, two people who lost voting rights for committing misdemeanors challenged the Alabama law.
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The move applies to both misdemeanors and felonies, the latter being reclassified or dropped completely.
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In that role, he has obtained nine guilty pleas against individuals for election-related misdemeanors.
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Illegal evictions are now misdemeanors punishable by civil penalties between $23,22 and $21975,26 per violation.
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In many cities and counties, misdemeanors make up about 80 percent of the criminal docket.
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If everyone accused of misdemeanors went to trial, the courts would collapse from the overload.
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When judges in New York City do set bail for misdemeanors, however, it's money bail.
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The other charges, all misdemeanors, include cheating at gambling, resisting law enforcement and public intoxication.
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And those convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors would be barred from the program.
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George Mason suggested the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors," which holds to this day.
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The charges include third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors.
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After Oakley became physical with the security guards, the police charged him with several misdemeanors.
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He pled not guilty to the slew of misdemeanors he's facing for the October arrest.
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"High Crimes and Misdemeanors" are activities so extreme that they threaten the constitutional order itself.
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Three people have been charged with misdemeanors in connection with the toppling of the statue.
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Donald Trump has committed crimes and misdemeanors that far outweigh Mr. Clinton's relatively insignificant perjury.
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Both were charged with misdemeanors, though authorities did not release the names of either minor.
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They can be removed only by congressional impeachment and conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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Garcetti clearly thinks Trump has committed either high crimes or misdemeanors -- the baseline for impeachment.
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I had 27 felony charges across four counties – mostly grand larceny – and many misdemeanors against me.
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"The NYPD has indicated that they use it in routine investigations, including for misdemeanors," she says.
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Yet from from the piss-stained ashes of these mistakes and misdemeanors, lessons can be learned.
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These cases include felonies, misdemeanors, and serious crimes and are instead prosecuted by a government agency.
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The conspiracy charges are second-degree misdemeanors, which could be punished by 60 days in jail.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The definition is the first word is treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Rodman pleaded guilty to the remaining three misdemeanors on Monday afternoon in an Orange County Court.
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"I don't think that this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors," he said.
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Denkins has been arrested more than 12 times, but he's only been convicted on three misdemeanors.
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He was booked for battery and trespassing, both misdemeanors, and released after posting bond of $1,850.
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Laws that prohibit access to people convicted of all violent misdemeanors can reduce intimate partner homicide.
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Maryland's firearm prohibitions for domestic violence-related misdemeanors chiefly apply to handguns, not rifles or shotguns.
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Oklahoma's State Question No. 780 would lessen some property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
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Ann, I don&apost know if you have seen this yet, the high crimes and misdemeanors.
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He was booked for felony criminal mischief and 3 misdemeanors ... animal torture, reckless endangerment and arson.
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He's been charged with 3 misdemeanors ... but most likely won't face any jail time if convicted.
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She's also still facing 2 misdemeanors -- trespassing and disorderly intoxication -- after turning down a plea deal.
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And will anything short of high crimes and misdemeanors -- the threshold for impeachment -- satisfy Democratic bloodlust?
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It's based on whether the Congress believes that the President has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Several banks have run into trouble with regulators over misdemeanors in their precious metals trading business.
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Huston previously worked with Allen, 83, on Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
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" Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of "high crimes & misdemeanors.
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They're so busy looking for misdemeanors they can big up that they miss the important stuff.
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Mason backed off and proposed instead "or other high crimes and misdemeanors," which was readily accepted.
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He had pleaded not guilty to misdemeanors, including resisting arrest and driving with a suspended license.
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She should be held accountable for sexual misdemeanors regardless of her gender, as should all women.
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Last week, they increased the severity of the charges, from second-degree to first-degree misdemeanors.
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San Diego has identified 4,700 cases, both felonies and misdemeanors, that will be cleared or downgraded.
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" Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of "high crimes & misdemeanors.
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When they hear the term 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' their reaction is, 'Show me the crime.
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What is clear is that high crimes and misdemeanors described far more than mere legal infractions.
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Taylor's been charged with felony terroristic threatening and 2 misdemeanors -- battery and interference with emergency communication.
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Trump addressed a Congress that remains bitterly divided over whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Twenty had criminal histories, ranging from misdemeanors and disorderly conduct to felony assault and weapons charges.
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Presidents have been accused of high crimes and misdemeanors for misconduct and for disputed policy choices.
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It meant disagreement with Congress over policy was not impeachable, yet "high crimes and misdemeanors" were.
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People arrested on misdemeanors charges are to be interviewed about their financial conditions for an affidavit.
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It's only the third time an American president has been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.
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A finding of "high crimes and misdemeanors" would present a ground for impeachment under the Constitution.
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A 2900 federal law prohibits people convicted of domestic violence felonies or misdemeanors from possessing firearms.
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Hostage to his own crimes and misdemeanors, Putin is doomed to die in his Kremlin residence.
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Yet almost no partisan Republicans have turned on Trump and his high-crimes-and-misdemeanors collaborators.
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He's been charged with one count of battery and one count of disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors.
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Also being considered: reducing maximum jail sentences for certain misdemeanors that could otherwise lead to deportation.
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The move would prevent migrants convicted of misdemeanors like possessing a fake ID from receiving asylum.
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Huston agreed to plead no contest to two misdemeanors -- public nuisance and resisting a peace officer.
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Broner denied the allegations -- but cops arrested him for sexual battery and simple battery ... both misdemeanors.
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Chesapeake pleaded no contest to one count each of attempted antitrust violation and false pretenses, both misdemeanors.
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And as reported by Gothamist, the NYPD has been ticketing cyclists for allegedly minor or nonexistent misdemeanors.
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He also faces three charges of culpable negligence, second-degree misdemeanors and perjury, a first-degree misdemeanor.
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Individual cities, like San Francisco, have already gone about expunging past convictions for both misdemeanors and felonies.
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Qui was booked for two misdemeanors -- assault causing bodily injury to a family member and unlawful restraint.
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The Constitution says officials can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," but doesn't define that term.
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Only one person, Dane Powell, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge; the rest admitted to misdemeanors.
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The first is that "high crimes and misdemeanors" is a broad term that is commonly misunderstood today.
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" He cited the U.S. Constitution's language that a president can be charged with "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Some employees have criminal arrest records, while others have served time for everything from misdemeanors to felonies.
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Artis, a linebacker, was charged this month with sexual battery and assault on a female, both misdemeanors.
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She was later charged with misdemeanors assault and reckless endangerment, and will be arraigned on October 29.
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Of those officials, 7 pleaded no contest to misdemeanors and are likely to have their records wiped.
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While stationed in Jacksonville, Rojas was arrested for battery and resisting an officer without violence, both misdemeanors.
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TMZ reported in January that Lee had been indicted on seven charges — three felonies and four misdemeanors.
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Sheriffs and police chiefs can be charged with misdemeanors for refusing to comply with federal detainer requests.
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Now, luckily for Sizemore all 4 charges are misdemeanors ... so he won't go to prison if convicted.
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Hubbard is charged with misdemeanors including resisting officers, driving on a suspended license and a traffic infraction.
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"Only if the constitutional criteria are met: bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," he replied.
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But the Constitution's standard for impeachable offenses—"high Crimes and Misdemeanors"—is not limited to prosecutable crimes.
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These are class one misdemeanors that could carry a sentence of up to six months in jail.
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Applying the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors, the House of Representatives has impeached two federal judges.
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She has been charged with two misdemeanors counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of assault.
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Cohen offered no credible evidence of any "high crimes and misdemeanors" committed by the president as president.
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He's facing 4 misdemeanors and one felony count of criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree.
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He plans to propose ending cash bail for those facing misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, the newspaper reported.
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Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law that downgraded low-level drug and property crimes to misdemeanors.
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At least one of the two misdemeanors will wind up in the plea deal, but the felonies?
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Impeachable offenses — high crimes and misdemeanors, carried out in the exercise of official duties — are literally unpardonable.
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In Washington, at least 128 people were arrested and charged with misdemeanors, according to the Capitol Police.
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But in our criminal justice system we realize there are differences between misdemeanors, felonies, second-degree vs.
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My dad enforced this with his weekly opportunity to shame us for our misdemeanors in his sermons.
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Those crimes include certain felonies, like burglary and other property crimes and drug offenses, and all misdemeanors.
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While in graduate school Mr. Roland was wrongfully convicted of four misdemeanors and jailed for 10 months.
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In the Los Angeles County Fire Department, felonies and some misdemeanors are grounds for disqualification, said Capt.
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Two people pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and were given probation; charges were dropped against the other two.
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When she illegally transfers her child, it is the first in an escalating series of risky misdemeanors.
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Democrats counter that impeachment's "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard extends beyond indictable crimes to broader presidential misconduct.
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Last February, attorney Anisha Gupta represented a Latino man charged with two misdemeanors: trespassing and resisting arrest.
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The assault charge is a felony, while the others are misdemeanors, said Arlene Muniz, a police spokeswoman.
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Hubbard was charged with misdemeanors, including resisting officers, driving on a suspended license and a traffic infraction.
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Misdemeanors can be filed until their 25th birthday, extending the previous statute of limitation by five years.
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Ator was arrested in 173 for criminal trespass and evading arrest, both misdemeanors, according to public records.
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The Constitution does not define "high crimes and misdemeanors," but we are certainly not without guidance here.
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For the purposes of this inquiry, the report defines treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors in turn.
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"I do't think that this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors," Ryan said. Rep.
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Democrats now laying out it what actions they believe reaches level of high crimes and misdemeanors. pic.twitter.
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If campaign finance violations qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors, elections won't be able to settle anything.
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He has been charged with two misdemeanors, not felonies, and those charges may be reduced or dropped.
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Only ten states currently have laws mandating individuals convicted on domestic violence misdemeanors to surrender their guns.
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It has long been the case that Dreamers who are charged with or convicted of a serious crime risk losing DACA status and being deported, since applicants had to have no felonies, significant misdemeanors, or three or more other misdemeanors to qualify for deferred action in the first place.
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He was booked for failure to obey a lawful command, and for the seat belt infraction ... both misdemeanors.
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The court bailiff said Frieden pleaded not guilty to all three charges — two misdemeanors and one noncriminal violation.
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Research shows that people convicted of violent misdemeanors are at an increased risk of committing future violent crimes.
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He was also convicted on misdemeanors related to writing bad checks and failure to pay taxes, records show.
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Proposition 47 was passed by California voters in November 2014 aiming to reduce drug possession felonies to misdemeanors.
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When they&aposre sending misdemeanors to prison, so they can&apost communicate for a year, is pretty telling.
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States such as Oregon, California and Utah have recently reduced all drug possession crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
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Bishop pleaded guilty to two domestic violence misdemeanors, in 2012 and 2013, Las Vegas Justice Court records show.
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"I think what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors," Alexander said.
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"Also, there are 'No High Crimes & Misdemeanors,' No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction," Trump tweeted earlier this month.
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He was also hit with misdemeanors for damaging 2 girlfriends' cell phones to prevent them from calling cops.
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Shaquon Thomas's entry went on and on: 23 arrests, the police said, mostly for misdemeanors, then the shootings.
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So the question remains: Are these accusations regarding the election code violation covered by "high crime and misdemeanors"?
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He was also found guilty of two misdemeanors – indecent exposure and a lewd public act, PEOPLE reported previously.
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Between January 2900, 220006, and April 2202, 2628, Florida revoked 28500 concealed handgun permits for misdemeanors or felonies.
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Gregory and Cobb were arrested in March and charged with misdemeanors in connection with shooting a BB gun.
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The Constitution specifies "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," not partisan dissatisfaction with an agency head.
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Not only are there are no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all.
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Bay City News said he had been charged with false imprisonment and violating a court order, both misdemeanors.
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Eventually, Green-Beckham was charged with resisting arrest and possessing 10 grams or less of marijuana -- both misdemeanors.
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The US Constitution states that a sitting president can be impeached for treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Jones was also charged with 2 misdemeanors ... exhibiting a deadly weapon and exhibiting a concealable firearm in public.
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In the US, the company says it also checks for sex offender registrations, felony convictions, and significant misdemeanors.
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He was charged with two misdemeanors for refusing to release the 2009 report and for false expense reimbursements.
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He was also facing 2 separate charges -- possession of weed and making an illegal lane change, both misdemeanors.
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He also was involved in a number of felony, misdemeanors and adult traffic cases dating back to 2005.
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In other states, like New York, sex work-related offenses are misdemeanors, punishable with fines and other penalties.
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Three of the 12 have pleaded their cases down to misdemeanors just to be done with the ordeal.
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Trump supporters will see this all as petty misdemeanors and outright attempts to destroy him by the opposition.
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Three of the defendants have taken deals pleading to lesser misdemeanors that come with probation and community service.
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People convicted of felonies or domestic violence misdemeanors forfeit their right to bear arms in the United States.
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Most people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies will be released without being required to post cash bail.
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" But Lamar said that "what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Cruz argues that the House impeachment case does not meet the impeachment criteria for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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But a child also cannot really commit "high crimes and misdemeanors" in any usual meaning of the term.
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Napolitano wrote that the Constitution describes justification for impeachment as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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" The U.S. Constitution sets out the impeachment process for removing a president who commits "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Bill Clinton, for instance, was impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Criminal courts in the state are now prohibited from setting cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
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They believe he has already committed high crimes and misdemeanors related to Russia's role in the 2016 election.
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In Oklahoma, they reined in the War on Drugs, reclassifying nearly all felony drug possession charges as misdemeanors.
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In other words: proving Trump's conduct crossed the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that constitute impeachable offenses.
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High crimes, misdemeanors, people talk about impeachment on the left, I don't think that's the direction to go.
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The most serious charges were soon dropped, leaving only misdemeanors, and he was released on bail last week.
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The articles of impeachment under consideration by the House clearly allege high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution.
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"The Constitution calls for impeachment in cases of bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors," he said.
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To guide police officers, "criminal activity" under the settlement must include only serious felonies and certainly not misdemeanors.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors" remains a nebulous term, though it's generally understood to mean an abuse of power.
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" Under the U.S. Constitution, the House has the power to impeach a president for "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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It recently issued guidelines recommending the use of personal bonds for people accused of 12 low-level misdemeanors.
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The two pleaded guilty to trespassing and illegal parking, both misdemeanors, Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia said.
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The big questions: What, exactly, constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors," and did the President's actions qualify as such?
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His efforts to reduce the number of incarcerated people — in part by reclassifying certain felonies as misdemeanors — failed.
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The jury deadlocked on the most serious charge, a felony, but convicted Mr. Peña Rodriguez of three misdemeanors.
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He was charged with numerous misdemeanors, including overdriving, torturing and injuring animals and failure to provide proper sustenance.
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He was charged with numerous misdemeanors, including overdriving, torturing and injuring animals and failure to provide proper sustenance.
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That isn't enough to make someone ineligible for DACA, which requires a "significant misdemeanor" or three other misdemeanors.
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The negligence and perfidy of President Trump — his high crimes and misdemeanors — can be separated into four categories.
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Lucky for Dustin, the judge only hit him with 2 misdemeanors and dropped the far more serious felonies.
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She is currently being held at the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $28,22 bail for the misdemeanors.
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The three charges of culpable negligence are second-degree misdemeanors, while the perjury charge is a first-degree misdemeanor.
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A 2008 study by the Court Statistics Project found that misdemeanors comprise nearly 80 percent of America's criminal caseload.
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Hamm also was sentenced to serve four days in jail on state hunting misdemeanors to which he pleaded guilty.
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He pleaded guilty to misdemeanors stemming from the Iran-Contra affair and was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.
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Both were criminally charged with failure to report suspected abuse and endangering the welfare of children, which are misdemeanors.
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The most common reports in 2015 were for forcible touching (340 cases) and public lewdness (223 cases), both misdemeanors.
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Those misdemeanors don&apost carry jail time, but the felony manslaughter charge carries a one-year minimum jail sentence.
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The program bars people who didn't finish high school or possess a felony conviction or three misdemeanors from applying.
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He was charged with two counts of criminal mischief and one count of obstruction of breathing, which are misdemeanors.
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The student has been charged with disruption of a school facility and resisting an officer without violence, both misdemeanors.
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He's now pleading guilty to 2 misdemeanors, including attempted aggravated animal cruelty ... according to the Manhattan D.A.'s Office.
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The football player, Allen Artis, was charged this week with sexual battery and assault on a female -- both misdemeanors.
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More serious crimes, like selling or transporting weed, were reduced from felonies carrying lengthy prison sentences to mere misdemeanors.
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He was initially looking at felony charges, but skated by with 2 misdemeanors for reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
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But after applying for her two felonies to be reduced to misdemeanors, she was cleared—and kept her lifeline.
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In 2017 and earlier this year, 13 people were charged with misdemeanors and felonies in the state of Washington.
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Those who have been convicted of violent felonies and domestic violence misdemeanors, among others, will be given special emphasis.
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What does the Constitution mean when it speaks of impeaching a president who has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"?
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One of those arresting officers, Edward M. Nero, was acquitted late last month of four misdemeanors in the case.
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Reynolds was convicted in 85033 of five misdemeanors for using a middleman to drive business for his law firm.
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Federal law bars felons, the mentally ill, drug addicts and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors from possessing firearms.
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A couple of misdemeanors followed, and he was later convicted of assault after a fight, The Times magazine reported.
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The jury deadlocked on the most serious charge, a felony, but it convicted Mr. Peña Rodriguez of three misdemeanors.
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But following the precedent of past Fed leak cases, he agreed to charge them with misdemeanors rather than felonies.
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I.C.E. had effectively justified "denying him his parental rights and liberty" as a result of two misdemeanors, she said.
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His girlfriend, Yolimar Tirado, was also arrested during the traffic stop and was charged with misdemeanors, Mr. McNeal said.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors" are, you will recall, the constitutional standard for impeaching the president of the United States.
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In contrast, federal prosecutors decline about one-third of felony cases, and some jurisdictions screen misdemeanors more rigorously too.
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If President Trump has committed high crimes or misdemeanors, there is a remedy for that built into the Constitution.
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Christina Thomas, a 21-year-old customer, was charged with three misdemeanors: assault, menacing and harassment, the police said.
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" But Alexander added: "I think what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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That year, 1999, was the last time the Senate considered whether a president had committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Washington memo Twenty-one years ago, President Bill Clinton was brought up on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Indeed, the phrase "or other high crimes and misdemeanors" has a legal definition instead of a common parlance meaning.
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And remember with the standard that they have is treason, bribery, high crime or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Within 24 hours, Ms. Daniels was charged with three misdemeanors, bailed out and released, and the charges were dropped.
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And this piece that breaks down what the phrase "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" really means.
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" His fellow framer James Madison objected to the vagueness of the term, so Mason substituted "high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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House impeachment manager Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, details the 'ABCs of high crimes and misdemeanors'
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"High crimes and misdemeanors is misbehavior that really undercuts the system of the Constitution and the government," she said.
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If the president fully admitted what he had done, he could head off charges of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Perez had no criminal history in Cincinnati but was charged with misdemeanors in Florida and South Carolina, Isaac said.
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It's not uncommon across the country for police to disproportionately stop black people for low-level crimes and misdemeanors.
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Impeachable offenses like "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not defined within the document — leaving them open to legal analysis.
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Immigrants aren't eligible for DACA if they've committed a felony or significant misdemeanor, or three misdemeanors of any kind.
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During that time, as part of the governor's efforts to reduce the city's homeless population, San Francisco began requiring police to charge cases that could be either infractions or misdemeanors as misdemeanors; it also launched a court program requiring the homeless to participate in community service or be charged with harsher penalties.
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As we reported ... Ronnie pled not guilty last month to a laundry list of misdemeanors stemming from an October incident with Jen and their 20-month daughter, Ariana, in L.A. He's facing 7 misdemeanors -- domestic violence, child endangerment, brandishing a weapon, criminal threats, false imprisonment [of Jen] and 2 counts of resisting arrest.
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Earlier in June, the department issued new guides for prostitution-related loitering misdemeanors, which disproportionately targeted trans women of color.
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The seven are being charged with several misdemeanors and felonies including malice murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and home invasion.
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Under the Obama administration, only undocumented immigrants convicted of a felony, serious misdemeanor or multiple misdemeanors were prioritized for deportation.
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Both crimes are misdemeanors under local law in Washington, DC, and have a maximum sentence of 90 days in prison.
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Speaking generally, a spokesman for Backgrounds Online said that most employers are looking for criminal charges like misdemeanors and felonies.
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His charges included two misdemeanors: one assault charge and another for criminal mischief for damaging property, according to case records.
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City attorney spokesperson Frank Mateljan tells PEOPLE the actor was charged with two misdemeanors after an altercation with his girlfriend.
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Gaines was accused of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, littering and failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order, all misdemeanors.
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She didn't take a position on California Proposition 47, which was approved by voters, that reduced some felonies to misdemeanors.
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Prior to becoming the municipal judge, Hampton worked as a Deputy City Attorney, prosecuting misdemeanors, including domestic batteries and DUI's.
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The form of the resolution is as follows: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high misdemeanors.
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"All of the charges lodged are misdemeanors, however, police are not ruling out enhancing them to felonies," the statement said.
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The new law would instead turn drug felonies into misdemeanors, for which those accused could still spend time in prison.
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There are countries -- like Canada -- that are super strict and sometimes block people who have even misdemeanors on their records.
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Fairman was later arrested in late 2012 for a handful of other crimes which included three misdemeanors and three felonies.
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Landry, 42, has been charged with second-degree harassment and interfering with police, both misdemeanors, local TV station WTIC reports.
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She was initially charged with 2 misdemeanors ... assault and reckless endangerment, but that's all superseded by the grand jury indictment.
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She was originally facing a felony charge of resisting an officer with violence, as well as the other 2 misdemeanors.
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Gaines was accused of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, littering and failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order, all misdemeanors.
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Enacting automatic record clearing of most misdemeanors and most crimes committed as a juvenile after a set period of time.
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People sentenced to prison time are often convicted of felonies, rather than misdemeanors, and receive sentences longer than a year.
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They may not be high Crimes and Misdemeanors, but they happen to be the kinds of things that Congress investigates.
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What if the report produces clear and compelling evidence that the President and his associates committed high crimes and misdemeanors?
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The US Constitution states that a sitting president can be impeached for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors is the standard for impeachment, and I have a high standard for impeachment," King told Hewitt.
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"Simple misdemeanors," she points out, that could just as easily be addressed by handing out citations to return to court.
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"Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors,' " Brennan said on Twitter.
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One version of the truth—a journalistic account of the men's misdemeanors—is replaced by another: the reality TV confessional.
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Chatwal was booked on one felony count of criminal mischief -- and 3 misdemeanors ... torturing an animal, reckless endangerment and arson.
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But he can, of course, be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," and bribery and obstruction of justice both qualify.
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But Massachusetts alone accounted for about 430,000 names because the state submits outstanding warrant records for both misdemeanors and felonies.
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People accused of misdemeanors are under heavy pressure to plead guilty, especially if they are incarcerated and cannot afford bail.
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Since 220, he has been convicted of six felonies and at least 22015 misdemeanors, including several assault charges, prosecutors said.
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He also has not won himself the right to commit high crimes and misdemeanors against the Constitution and the people.
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"They fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone 'high Crimes and Misdemeanors,'" Trump's team wrote.
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Brooklyn's programs also had a relatively low rate of future felony convictions, 7 percent (along with 9 percent for misdemeanors).
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Republicans have largely objected to that inclusion, as well as language preventing those convicted of certain misdemeanors from purchasing firearms.
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This makes Nervous Nancy every bit as guilty as Liddle' Adam Schiff for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and even Treason.
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" The Constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of a president for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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"President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," Mr. Feldman said.
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For example, in 1982, assault and attempted rape were both misdemeanors and subject to a one-year statute of limitations.
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The words of the Constitution, "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," are fixed and not subject to dispute.
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Even for the most common misdemeanors for which citation is an option, most have citation rates 25 percent or lower.
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As expected, a majority of the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach the Prez for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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While the Constitution refers to "Treason, Bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors," impeachment doesn't require actually violating criminal statutes.
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These issues are not the "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" that the founders intended impeachment to address.
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Democrats have "cried wolf" once too often when it came to allegations of "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the president.
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Exactly. The word "high"—people have just lost track of this—in "high crimes and misdemeanors" does all the work.
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T.I.'s argument with a security guard in his gated community has amped up ... he's been charged with 3 misdemeanors.
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The Constitution allows impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors," a phrase understood to encompass more than felonies defined by Congress.
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Priority 2 included persons guilty of serious or repeated misdemeanors, recent border crossers, and those who committed significant visa abuse.
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And that means that in 2015 the FBI may have authorized its informants to commit 5,261 misdemeanors for all we know.
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The Constitution states that a president can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," a term long seen as notoriously vague.
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And the term "criminal offense," isn't defined in the order and could include a wide range of charges, including presumably misdemeanors.
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"Statutory rape [sex with a minor] and/or sexual assault can be charged either as felonies or as misdemeanors," Kamran says.
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Debates over whether Trump committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"—the constitutional requirement for impeachment—will dominate cable news and social media.
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" On Monday, Brennan tweeted that Trump&aposs performance at the news conference "rises to & exceeds the threshold of &aposhigh crimes & misdemeanors.
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On Monday he formally recused himself from deciding whether to reduce a San Jose plumber's felony child pornography charges to misdemeanors.
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They were both arraigned in a Franklin Municipal Court on Tuesday on their first-degree misdemeanors, according to the Associated Press.
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Gebhardt has been convicted in the past of aggravated assault and criminal damage, both felonies, along with multiple misdemeanors, records show.
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"I don't think I saw anything new that makes me believe we've reached high crimes and misdemeanors," Van Drew told Vox.
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CNN: You detail many possible high crimes and misdemeanors, including obstruction of justice, abuse of the pardon power, lying and greed.
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Ace was taken into custody and charged with 2 misdemeanors -- 1 count of DUI and 1 count of following too closely.
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That bill would have provided a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants with some misdemeanors, but not those with felony convictions.
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The charges were later reduced to 4 misdemeanors -- battery, brandishing a weapon, criminal threats and carrying a knife in plain view.
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It increased the crime rate, which is now up to 200 misdemeanors per year, and the number of cars roaring through.
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Intelligence intercepts, or their gist, hit the front page about as often as presidents are accused of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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McCall was booked on 5 charges ... 4 misdemeanors -- obstruction of a law enforcement officer, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and simple assault.
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In Los Angeles, the county district attorney's office is responsible for filing felony charges while the city attorney's office considers misdemeanors.
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In Texas, 22019 permit holders were convicted of misdemeanors or felonies in 2015 — the last year for which data is available.
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The felony drug counts were dropped to misdemeanors on January 23, after lab tests first detected no drugs in the honey.
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Conviction on a felony charge can bring long prison sentences, while misdemeanors can bring up to just a year in jail.
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California allows counties to set their own bail policies, leading to major differences in how misdemeanors are handled across the state.
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Cody, 27, had been convicted of several misdemeanors in connection with the starvation death of his dog Taz, a Canary mastiff.
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Hines-Brim was reportedly charged with battery on a police officer, and both women are expected to be charged with misdemeanors.
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The L.A. City Attorney is slapping Weston Cage with 3 charges ... DUI and two counts of hit and run ... all misdemeanors.
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According to court docs, the felony counts carry up to 4 years in prison and the misdemeanors up to 2 years.
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That meets the threshold, Sherman argues, of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" the Constitution says are necessary to impeach a president.
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As a result, people were released from jails and thousands of people have had felonies and misdemeanors removed from their records.
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California's prohibition covers people convicted of felonies or violent misdemeanors, people subject to domestic violence restraining orders, and the mentally ill.
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In January, she pleaded not guilty to one felony (resisting an officer with violence) and two misdemeanors (trespassing and disorderly intoxication).
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An additional 4,900 felony marijuana charges will be examined by prosecutors to determine if they should be retroactively reduced to misdemeanors.
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Ohio, a state hard hit by overdose deaths, is asking voters whether drug possession cases should be prosecuted only as misdemeanors.
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After all, over the three decades his father, King Salman, headed the family council, collecting copious evidence of his relatives' misdemeanors.
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Cardi B, born Belcalis Almanzar, received a summons for one count of assault and two counts of reckless endangerment, all misdemeanors.
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Background reading: Different interpretations of the phone call are shaping a debate over whether the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The US Constitution gives Congress the power to hold federal officers accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors through the impeachment process.
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As Vox's Sean Collins reported, Bill Clinton was impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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In plain English, that means first, there needs to be evidence that Trump committed treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Federal law prohibits felons, people convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanors and people involuntarily committed to mental institutions from owning guns.
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The Judiciary Committee proceedings will examine whether Trump's actions qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors" punishable by impeachment under the Constitution.
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The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors," Trump said, prompting Clinton to reply, "don't tempt me.
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In prominent cases, the colonies borrowed terms from English law to describe the legitimate grounds for impeachment: high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Democrats, they argued, were "asking you to tear up the ballots" by finding Mr. Trump guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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" They will decide whether the President has committed any "impeachable offenses," defined as "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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He was previously arrested in 2001 for criminal trespass and evading arrest, both of which are misdemeanors, according to public records.
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Bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors are not, and have been the subject of debate among legal scholars, including during Wednesday's hearing.
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On the other hand, no one believes that the police and investigators should constantly harass members of the government over misdemeanors.
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That's not enough to run with an impeachment inquiry when the Constitution requires impeachment charges to encompass high crimes or misdemeanors.
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SB 1892 classifies intentional drone surveillance of an individual or property, and possessing images from said surveillance, as Class C misdemeanors.
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Most of the felony charges were dropped or reduced to misdemeanors when the complainants and witnesses refused to testify or disappeared.
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Rios and his wife were drug addicts for 19 years, and the former delivery man has multiple misdemeanors on his record.
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In February 2017, J.S. was arrested and charged with 12 felonies and 2 misdemeanors ... including multiple counts of child sexual abuse.
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It helps that federal law covers misdemeanors and restraining orders, since it's difficult to get a felony conviction for domestic violence.
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The California attorney general, Kamala D. Harris, and the Santa Barbara County district attorney, Joyce E. Dudley, said a Santa Barbara County grand jury had handed up an indictment charging the company, Plains All American, with four felonies and 42 misdemeanors, and charging an employee, James Buchanan, an environmental and regulatory compliance specialist at Plains, with three misdemeanors.
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Prosecutors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars beefing up staff to find victims of low-level misdemeanors, such as vandalism or shoplifting.
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The battery and falsifying records charges against the deputies are first-degree misdemeanors and carry a maximum prison sentence of one year.
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Editor's note: In an earlier version, the passage citing "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" incorrectly omitted the word "other."
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" James Madison replied that maladministration was too "vague," leading Mason to withdraw the suggestion, and replace it with "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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We broke the story ... Michael was just charged with 2 misdemeanors for DUI after smashing his Land Rover in Malibu last month.
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While treason and bribery are defined by the Constitution and by federal law, "high crimes and misdemeanors" is a less specific charge.
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But it was not clear from the news release whether the offenses charged are misdemeanors or felonies or a combination of both.
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The former NFL star was hit with a bevy of charges ... including felony intimidation, felony battery against an officer and several misdemeanors.
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While many states have similar laws, the vast majority of penalties for leaving an animal in a car are classified as misdemeanors.
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The incident has also triggered an International Cricket Council (ICC) review of the players' code of conduct to curb on-field misdemeanors.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "Here's the thing, people: these hearings are investigating whether the president of the United States committed high crimes or misdemeanors.
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And if so, whether those actions meet the standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors" deserving of impeachment and, potentially, removal from office.
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States have done this by reclassifying certain drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors or creating safety valve exceptions to mandatory minimum sentences.
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Texas has a reputation for being super-religious, but there has always been a tolerance for the sexual misdemeanors of elected officials.
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Well, the Constitution provides that the president can be impeached for treason, bribery, and what it calls other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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"Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors,'" tweeted former CIA Director John Brennan.
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She was convicted of two misdemeanors - using falsified documents and illegally re-entering the United States after her mother's funeral in Mexico.
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I mean, we had been accustomed to handling a caseload in the 30s and sometimes in the 40s for misdemeanors every day.
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So they have to get a felony; they can't just get misdemeanors or violations, even if that's the only thing they see.
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"Now the question is whether it rises to the level of &aposhigh crimes and misdemeanors,&apos" Anonymous wrote in the Reddit thread.
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Now officials say they believe they have enough evidence to convict Collison of battery and corporate injury to a spouse ... both misdemeanors.
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Once she had a client who kept getting locked up for short stretches — 30 days here, 60 days there — all for misdemeanors.
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The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power to impeach the president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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What he did say, I said, "I think everything changed in 803 with 'Crimes and Misdemeanors,'" where a man arranges a killing.
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Impeachment would be a more direct and fitting approach, if Mr. Trump's actions rise to the level of high crimes or misdemeanors.
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Along with murder, assault and weapons charges, prosecutors added hate crimes charges, but they were misdemeanors, not felonies, because he acted alone.
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The fund bails out people accused of misdemeanors whose bail is set at $2200,000 or less; the average bail paid is $1,000.
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He was regularly thrown into solitary confinement for trifling misdemeanors, things like failing to stand when a prison guard entered his cell.
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According to KCRG, all of the charges are simple misdemeanors, except for possession of a fictitious license, which is a serious misdemeanor.
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Democrats, they argued, were "asking you to tear up all of the ballots" by convicting Mr. Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Beginning next year, people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies will in most cases be released without cash bail, pending their trials.
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The Mine Safety and Health Act, the statute under which Mr. Blankenship was convicted, treats the worst criminal violations as mere misdemeanors.
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"The Schiff-Sondland exchange revealed necessary elements to show high crimes and misdemeanors — abuse of power and extortion — and bribery," said Rep.
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"It goes right to the heart of the issue of bribery, as well as other potential high crimes or misdemeanors," Schiff said.
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In 2010, it paid $33 million to about 100,000 people after correction officers were accused of strip-searching suspects charged with misdemeanors.
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Barring the unforeseen, Mr. Trump will be the first American president to face voters after being charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.
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But today, nearly all states compel DNA from all convicted felons, while many states collect DNA from individuals convicted of mere misdemeanors.
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Since the bar is now being set so high for "high crimes and misdemeanors," censuring would make the point and avoid impeachment.
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Trump is facing two articles of impeachment alleging that he engaged in "high crimes and misdemeanors" to interfere with the 2020 election.
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Oklahoma has tried to buck the trend by turning low-level felonies (like possession of a small amount of drugs) into misdemeanors.
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"The resolution lowers the bar in defining what are 'high crimes and misdemeanors' — the ambiguous standard for an impeachable offense," Conway wrote.
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According to several constitutional lawyers, "high crimes and misdemeanors" is a purposefully vague term and can be defined by members of Congress.
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The charges are second-degree misdemeanors and generally carry no more than a 60-day sentence in county jail, according to Edmondson.
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Mayor Bloomberg unnamed them one night in 2006 after Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for accepting home renovations from a contractor.
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In California, for example, Proposition 47 — approved by voters in 2014 — retroactively reduced some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
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Status offenses are those crimes and misdemeanors committed by minors that would not qualify as offenses if the offender was an adult.
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He was charged with two misdemeanors, and those charges may be reduced or dropped as charges of soliciting a prostitute often are.
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Perhaps the most important part of the requirements is that an applicant cannot have even one felony or more than three misdemeanors.
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President Trump, barring the unforeseen, will be the first American president to face voters after being charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Now, officials have formally charged Suggs with 2 misdemeanors -- driving with a suspended license and failure to notify after striking a fixture.
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"A lot of people believe we've been in an impeachment inquiry ever since we started looking into high crimes and misdemeanors," he said.
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The ex-NHL star was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and 2 counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance -- all misdemeanors.
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Everything's made up, and the rules don't matter, but they really do because the constitution says high crimes and misdemeanors shall be impeachable.
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They arrested him for creating a "false public alarm," a level two crime in New Jersey, which does not separate misdemeanors and felonies.
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The move comes three days after Chickillo was arrested and charged with three misdemeanors stemming from a domestic disturbance incident involving his girlfriend.
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Their charges range from felonies for misconduct in office, conspiracy, and tampering with evidence, as well as misdemeanors for willful neglect of duty.
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Uber will continue to reject people with felony convictions for violent crimes, as well as those with DUIs or misdemeanors related to intoxication.
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He has pleaded not guilty to four misdemeanors including second-degree assault, misconduct in office, and reckless endangerment in connection with Gray's death.
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He also instructed the border districts to put together guidelines on charging first-time crossers with misdemeanors, paving the way for future felonies.
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Consequently, illegal aliens committing multiple felonies and misdemeanors receive a total pass as long as they have not been convicted of their crimes.
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NBA star Zach Randolph has been formally charged with 2 misdemeanors for that August 9 weed arrest in L.A. ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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Local officials were not able to bring hate crime charges because state law only allows for the charges to be added to misdemeanors.
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Defense attorneys often press to have felonies reduced to misdemeanors because it makes finding employment easier among potential employers who do background checks.
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And the proposal would also change how immigration judges weigh misdemeanors, other than illegal entry, committed in the United States by asylum seekers.
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However, the law does not apply to offenses labeled as misdemeanors under state law that carry jail time of two years or less.
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But as of this month, there's a third option for people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies in all five boroughs: supervised release.
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Similarly, grabbing someone's butt or masturbating in one's own car also qualify as sex registerable offenses, even though they are punishable as misdemeanors.
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Paul and Rondo, furthermore, also have prior misdemeanors on their N.B.A. disciplinary records, which tend to be a variable employed in suspension math.
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One member of the group, Geoffrey Young, 38, was taken into custody Thursday night and charged with two misdemeanors: riot and attempted assault.
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Still, the prosecutors increased the severity of the charges, from second-degree to first-degree misdemeanors, against Mr. Kraft and the other defendants.
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They specified that "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not necessarily crimes on the books but arise from the singular power of the presidency.
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Experts estimate there are no more than 1,20183 hate crime convictions in any given year and that just a small fraction involve misdemeanors.
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Broadly, those crimes include battery, assault, domestic abuse, sex offenses, sex trafficking, child abuse, torture, burglary, kidnapping and other felonies or serious misdemeanors.
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"There is nothing that Donald Trump can do that would cause [Senate Republicans] to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors," said Rep.
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On the substance, I think that Clinton's behavior was in a gray area of "high crimes and misdemeanors": odious, illegal but largely personal.
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The Constitution prescribes that sanction for those who commit "bribery, treason, and other high crimes and misdemeanors"—and, Dershowitz argues, absolutely nothing else.
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In total, Parisi was hit with 7 felonies -- including controlled substance trafficking and possession -- and 2 misdemeanors for the weed and drug paraphernalia.
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Investigators will only be able to collect DNA from juveniles in connection with felonies, sex crimes, firearm crimes or hate crimes, not misdemeanors.
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The Senate ultimately deemed that his bad behavior did not qualify under the "high crimes and misdemeanors" requirement to be removed from office.
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Those two offenses, for instance, are considered misdemeanors under New York State law but can be cause for deportation under federal immigration law.
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After all, even though presidents can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," impeachment is ultimately a political process, not a legal one.
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Missing, though, were the details of Trump's intentional involvement in criminal activity substantial enough to tip the Constitution's "high crimes and misdemeanors" scale.
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"It goes right to the heart of the issue of bribery as well as other potential high crimes and misdemeanors," Schiff told reporters.
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A President may be impeached and removed for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," according to Article II of the Constitution.
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But depending on the state misdemeanors can drunk driving, endangering the welfare of a child; domestic violence; and insurance, healthcare, and welfare fraud.
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Trump, only the third president ever to be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, now faces a trial in the GOP-led Senate.
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Some nonviolent misdemeanors, such as use of a controlled substance and failure to have valid vehicle insurance, are not even eligible for citation.
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The chief executive says he would not do the Bear Stearns deal again, due to the penalties later imposed for pre-acquisition misdemeanors.
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The defense moved to strike the jurors with prior misdemeanors, arguing that they had failed to indicate their past violations on the form.
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Supervision lasts until the cases are resolved, which may be just a few months for misdemeanors and more than a year for felonies.
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Taking into account both misdemeanors and felonies, nearly 20 percent of those on supervised release are rearrested during the program, city data show.
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That's the essence of what high crimes and misdemeanors have always been—they meant that before the founding, they've meant that ever since.
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Further, he said, "high crimes and misdemeanors," the U.S. Constitution's standard for removing a president from office, does not require corresponding statutory charges.
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There is no distinction between felonies and misdemeanors, and even people charged but not yet tried get thrown into this capacious criminal pot.
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Ohio Issue 1, a ballot initiative, would reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors, so they're no longer classified as felonies with harsher penalties.
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The L.A. County D.A. is slapping Denaysha Coleman with 2 misdemeanors for assault and battery, and a warrant's been issued for her arrest.
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Then it would go to the Senate, where it takes a two-thirds majority to find a president guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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This has tried to "change the tone at the top" of finance firms by making senior management directly accountable for specific activities or misdemeanors.
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Callahan said he strives to bring felony charges, but on rare occasion files misdemeanors in hopes of using the charges to build larger cases.
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He has not responded to the charges and says the tribunal, which tries asset-declaration misdemeanors, does not have the authority to try him.
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The DA's office said it would also review and resentence nearly 5,000 felony marijuana convictions to see if they should be downgraded to misdemeanors.
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Tyrel was booked on three charges -- 1 domestic violence count, 1 charge of disorderly conduct and one charge of damage to property -- all misdemeanors.
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He is charged with one count of forcible touching and one count of sexual abuse, which are misdemeanors, in connection with each alleged incident.
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During Friar's sentencing, Judge Josann M. Reynolds cited three other cases in Dane County in which defendants had sexual assault charges lowered to misdemeanors.
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The DA's office was also going to look into almost 5,000 felony marijuana convictions and consider if they should be knocked down to misdemeanors.
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And because the statute of limitations on misdemeanors in New York is two years, it is unlikely the city will re-open that investigation.
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Los Angeles City Attorney spokesperson Frank Mateljan previously told PEOPLE the actor, 38, was charged with two misdemeanors after an altercation with his girlfriend.
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First, Will and Tim dig into the Romanian moral drama Graduation, which feels like Crimes and Misdemeanors-era Woody Allen, but even more despairing.
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Often, the feed publicizes the names of those who've committed petty crimes and misdemeanors—effectively serving to shame offenders and generate quick arrest revenue.
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Robin Steinberg, the Bronx Defenders' executive director, said delays for people charged with misdemeanors — the lawsuit's focus — had only gotten worse in recent years.
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Their goal is to transform what might seem like an abstract debate over foreign policy into high crimes and misdemeanors in the public mind.
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Under the legislation, most violations of parks department rules, like being in a park after dark, will also be downgraded to violations from misdemeanors.
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The Constitution enables impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors," but does not define what those offenses are, though they could in theory include obstruction.
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First, there is the possibility of impeachment, for obstruction of justice or some other "high crime and misdemeanors," in the words of the Constitution.
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Most of his offenses were reduced to misdemeanors, and Mr. Maldonado spent no time in state prison and only a few days in jail.
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Ronnie Ortiz-Magro just pled not guilty to a laundry list of misdemeanors stemming from last month's incident with his baby mama, Jen Harley.
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Will data be used for just violent crimes, or will law enforcement eventually want to pore over data for parking violations and minor misdemeanors?
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As measured by the harm inflicted on the American people (and others), the offenses for which Trump is being impeached qualify as mere misdemeanors.
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In the end, the jury deadlocked on the most serious charge, a felony, but convicted the defendant, Miguel Angel Peña Rodriguez, of three misdemeanors.
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He made clear that the constitutional remedy for Mr. Trump's potential transgressions is for Congress to determine if "high crimes and misdemeanors" were committed.
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Defendants will no longer be assessed bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, and prosecutors will need to disclose evidence in cases far earlier.
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He was also charged with 2 misdemeanors for violating the restraining order Hunter Daily has against him, and contempt of court ... also a misdemeanor.
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They included permitting undocumented residents to obtain state driver's licenses and reducing maximum jail sentences for certain misdemeanors that could otherwise lead to deportation.
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Prosecutors should devote more time and resources to screening misdemeanors so that minor arrests do not become criminal charges so easily and so often.
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But if it leads to the conclusion that this president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, that's what should motivate the Congress to act.
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Sports of The Times Coach Larry Fedora's boys got caught in a snarl of N.C.A.A. misdemeanors last week, and that left him deeply saddened.
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But those who have been convicted of misdemeanors or nonviolent felonies and have less than a year left in their sentence will be released.
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The man, Shane Ryan Sealy, 34, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanors in Huntsville Municipal Court, and a trial date was set for Aug.
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Rather, it is a day that "we the people," through our elected representatives, exercised our most important power: impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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That move meant Heather would avoid jail after pleading no contest to 8 misdemeanors, including 6 involving battery on a police officer or EMT.
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Spoiler: Republicans will ensure that Trump is acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors and will leave it up to voters to decide his fate.
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If this is the case, it means they thought that there were some executive actions that would be deemed as high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Judd Apatow urges Georgia voters to get rid of Doug Collins after 'terrorists' comment MORE claiming high crimes or misdemeanors by a sitting president.
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" Kenn Starr, former Special Prosecutor Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel: "Does this reach the level of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors?
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It's a position that is sharply outside of the mainstream understanding among legal scholars of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" outlined in the Constitution.
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So when the Framers talked in terms of Bribery, Treason and Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors they were referring back to English Common Law.
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Most constitutional scholars broadly agree that the constitutional term "high crimes and misdemeanors" for which an official may be impeached includes abuse of power.
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Without clear evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, the start of impeachment hearings could create a backlash, as some voters rally to his side.
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He has spearheaded initiatives to reclassify most drug offenses as misdemeanors, opened up reintegration centers for inmates prior to release, and enacted bail reform.
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Obama's policies targeted immigrants with a record of a felony or serious misdemeanor such as drunk driving or dealing drugs (or three lesser misdemeanors).
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The Constitution's final version eliminated the last three words, prompting debates to this day on how to define what constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors.
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" The president, the Constitution says, "shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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We should not advance any more judicial nominees while we take on this solemn responsibility of the president's trial for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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While the attorney general in Washington does not have jurisdiction over most criminal matters except for some misdemeanors, Racine can investigate potential civil violations.
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"This makes Nervous Nancy every bit as guilty as Liddle' Adam Schiff for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and even Treason," he said on Twitter.
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Both reports primarily focus on how to define "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," the offenses enumerated by the Constitution for impeachment.
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In June 2012, Sandusky was convicted of 25 felonies and 20 misdemeanors stemming from charges that he molested 10 boys between 1994 and 2009.
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But the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, specifies bribery as a ground of impeachment, as it specifies other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would deny asylum to migrants who have been convicted of misdemeanors like possession of marijuana.
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"The Ukraine caper by the president is some combination of treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors," said Weld, a former Massachusetts governor.
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By adding "other high crimes and misdemeanors," the Framers plainly intended that the bases for impeachment should not be limited to treason and bribery.
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Perfect films—Bicycle Thieves, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Safe, Short Cuts—are surely not easy to make, but perfect cultural moments are impossible to engineer.
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The U.S. president on Wednesday will likely become the third to be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, after Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
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"We present you not just with high crimes and misdemeanors, but a constitutional crime in progress, up to this very minute," Raskin said. Rep.
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Mr. Kraft has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanors and has turned the dispute over the videos into a winner-take-all legal fight.
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Offset's been charged with two felony gun charges as well as some misdemeanors, so the possibility of jail time is certainly there on paper.
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In the year after her ruling, more than 19643,000 people — accused of misdemeanors and held on money bail that they couldn't afford — were released.
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They'll wait until special counsel Robert Mueller or a revitalized congressional investigation in 2019 yields even more overwhelming evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Former CIA director John Brennan tweeted, &aposDonald Trump&aposs press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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In New York City, 70 percent of people charged with misdemeanors pleaded guilty at their first court appearance, often just to get out of jail.
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The three counts against Daniels were first-degree misdemeanors, with a maximum penalty for one count being six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
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The Oscar winner is charged with two misdemeanors: forcible touching and sex abuse in the third degree, related to the alleged groping incident in June.
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Typically, protesters who get rowdy are charged with misdemeanors, like failure to disperse, and only those who do property damage are charged with doing so.
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Police said Sefolosha and Antic were not involved in the stabbing incident, but they were charged with misdemeanors, including disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration.
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According to the court documents, Mr. Palin was charged with three misdemeanors: assault, interfering with reporting of a domestic violence crime, and a weapons charge.
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There is an opportunity to appeal, retrain and return to the platform, except in cases of poor attitude, misconduct and other serious misdemeanors, Bhal said.
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It's true, of course, that high crimes and misdemeanors are whatever a majority of the House (and two-thirds of the Senate) say they are.
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It was not, he insisted, what the Constitution's framers had in mind when they cited "high crimes and misdemeanors" as cause for a president's removal.
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In the face of looming impeachment, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and -- after announcing his resignation -- said he would never seek public office again.
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While he was convicted of the two lesser misdemeanors, Diamond was found not guilty of the more serious felony charge of recklessly endangering public safety.
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With five felony charges and four misdemeanors, his record had long stood in the way of his ability to access public housing and find work.
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Our first year was in juvenile court, our second was in adult misdemeanors, and then we moved to lower-level felony cases like Ms. Willis's.
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It's part of the left's war on the right The Hill's Campaign Report: Obama legacy under spotlight after Detroit debates MORE downgraded them to misdemeanors.
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In history's three main impeachment cases, Congress "never defined high crimes and misdemeanors," explained Timothy Naftali, a CNN presidential historian and a professor at NYU.
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Y. He argued that Mueller's report lays out "very substantial evidence" that Trump is guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the constitutional standard for impeachment.
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" Respectfully, Speaker Pelosi, the Constitution says Congress has a duty to impeach the president if it finds that he has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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ICE officers in Pennsylvania also aggressively pursued immigrants for traffic violations, or infractions too minor to qualify as misdemeanors, or offenses both minor and dated.
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The grounds for impeachment set out in the Constitution—"high Crimes and Misdemeanors"—are familiar, but a consensus definition of those terms has proved elusive.
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Here in Louisiana, the change could alter the lives of close to 173,217 222-year-olds who are arrested each year, mainly for nonviolent misdemeanors.
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The Constitution includes a legal standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that has long been defined in light of controlling legal definitions and case law.
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Those accused of misdemeanors would have to be released 90 days after their arraignment, and those accused of felonies would have to serve 180 days.
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Lesson 3: Prove a crime — The constitutional standard for impeachment is "high crimes and misdemeanors," an opaque phrase that was archaic when adopted in 1787.
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An impeachment inquiry is distinct from the impeachment process, and involves an investigation of potential "high crimes and misdemeanors" that form the basis of impeachment.
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Some criminals must give up guns Californians approved Proposition 63, which means anyone convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors must give up their firearms.
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To be so obliged to private interests is to create the appearance, and court the reality, of an inability to curb capital's crimes and misdemeanors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Constitution explains how a president can be removed from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors" by Congress using the impeachment process.
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This reader, at least, cares more about how my representatives vote and what policies they back than I do about their personal lives and misdemeanors.
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Their argument may also make more sense as impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors, which are abuses of power not limited to technical statutory felonies.
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Examples include people over 50, people near the ends of their sentences and people convicted or facing trial for nonviolent misdemeanors or low-level felonies.
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Tom Winter, an NBC News investigative reporter, noted that Castile had been pulled over 52 times for misdemeanors including driving without a muffler and speeding.
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Business conflicts of interest that violate the Emoluments Clause, obstructions of justice and illegal hush-money payments comprise three "high crimes and misdemeanors" mandating impeachment.
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It started when he began calling traffic police officers to advocate for friends who had been caught driving drunk or been charged with other misdemeanors.
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The charges against the couple are misdemeanors, but if the amount of money they received exceeds $2,000, the couple could face felony charges, Limani said.
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What do you make of the homicidal misogyny of "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), in which Martin Landau murders his inconvenient mistress, played by Anjelica Huston?
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Whereas a minority are felons, many more committed misdemeanors, and the majority are guilty only of crossing the border illegally and working without a permit.
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But the Constitution confers upon the House of Representatives the "sole power to impeach" the president for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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It was, in fact, one of the examples the Constitution's framers deployed to explain what would constitute "high crimes and misdemeanors," the standard for impeachment.
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One hundred senators are convening to solemnly consider whether impeached President Donald Trump should be removed from office for having committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States, on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors was about to begin.
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"There are many reasons why high crimes and misdemeanors are not and cannot be limited to violations of the criminal code," he said on Thursday.
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It would be a victory for good government — and would also send a message about the severity of Trump's and Pence's high crimes and misdemeanors.
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A decade of data from her group indicates that over 153 percent of people accused of misdemeanors will plead guilty when they can't post bail.
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The charges are misdemeanors, with a maximum sentence of up to one year in prison and a $25,000 fine for each of the three counts.
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Does what he is accused of doing rise to the level of "Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors" as defined by the Constitution?
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That's honestly anyone in Congress needs to know before deciding whether or not it meets the "high crimes and misdemeanors" threshold for impeaching the president.
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He's been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors in the form of two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power, one for obstructing Congress.
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He had been banned from Mall of America in the past and was convicted of misdemeanors in two incidents there in 2015, court records show.
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And the founders emphasized that impeachments were about what happened in the political arena: involving &apospolitical crimes and misdemeanors&apos and resulting in &apospolitical punishments.
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The Constitution says that "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" are impeachable (a "high crime" means something done by a person in power).
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Rather, they're awaiting trial for low-level misdemeanors — like drug offenses and loitering — and simply can't afford to post bail in exchange for their freedom.
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Trump became only the third president to be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and will now face a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Misdemeanors would "start and end in family court," according to Mr. Gallivan, and 16- and 17-year-olds would be housed separately from adult defendants.
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That is because the word "high" in the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" denotes serious offenses that harm our system of government under the Constitution.
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Trump has defended his conduct with Ukraine, insisting his actions did not meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors laid out in the Constitution.
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They can investigate themselves and, if they find evidence of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" impeach and remove a president from office.
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After Mr. Kraft was charged with two first-degree misdemeanors of soliciting prostitution last week, the Patriots denied that he participated in any illegal activity.
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The tentative deal closely tracks the position of the state District Attorneys Association, which had endorsed ending bail for most misdemeanors and some nonviolent felonies.
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Earlier this week, the 32-year-old pled guilty to unlawful eavesdropping, theft by receiving stolen property, and 2 counts of peeping toms, all misdemeanors.
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She's been charged with a felony count of resisting an officer with violence for the incident -- not to mention 2 misdemeanors ... trespassing and disorderly intoxication.
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Under DACA, recipients convicted of felonies, significant misdemeanors or three misdemeanors lose their benefits DACA is available to undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country before the age of 85033; were under 31 years old on June, 15 2012; have passed a background check and paid a fee; and are either in school, have a high school degree or are honorably discharged veterans.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The definition it needs is the first word in the impeachment article of the Constitution which is treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Avery Desmond-Edwinn Robinson, 35, has been charged with five felonies and nine misdemeanors, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced in a press release Tuesday.
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Prohibit all people convicted of violent misdemeanors People convicted of a violent misdemeanor should be prohibited from purchasing or possessing guns for at least ten years.
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For this reason, prohibitions need to be broad, to include all people convicted of violent misdemeanors, not solely limited to those with domestic violence convictions. 2.
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Ronnie Ortiz-Magro might have dodged a felony in his nasty incident with Jen Harley ... but he has a laundry list of misdemeanors to deal with.
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The Oscar winner was previously charged with two misdemeanors: forcible touching and sex abuse in the third degree, related to the alleged groping incident in June.
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Previously, those with misdemeanors from before the legalization law was passed could petition to get their case re-examined, but that process required lawyers and money.
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That year, she was charged with three misdemeanors — public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a cop — stemming from an incident at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Giuliani vowed to sweep the streets clean, and, as a result, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were thrown behind bars for petty crimes and misdemeanors.
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I&aposm sickened by Congress that doesn&apost call for articles of impeachment when we have so much evidence of his horrible high crimes and misdemeanors.
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"It took away a lot of options for us," Greenberg, who argues that prosecutors already used their discretion to reduce certain felonies to misdemeanors, told me.
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The suspects were part of a massive poaching ring in Oregon and Washington, who were altogether charged with more than 200 misdemeanors and felonies, authorities say.
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For example, before last year, the only convictions Maryland residents could expunge were those for nine misdemeanors related to homelessness, such as panhandling and public urination.
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"If I could modify your question to ask if there's a legal basis to argue high crimes and misdemeanors, then the answer is yes," Napolitano said.
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Instead, he ended up in jail and booked on 5 charges -- 4 misdemeanors and one felony count of criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree.
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The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, said on Sunday he believed there was "substantial evidence" that Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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As far as reform is concerned, Boulton said states should lower felony convictions to misdemeanors and update legislation to align with current medical knowledge about transmission.
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It is now time for Congress, the institution that will ultimately determine whether the President has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, to launch its own proceedings.
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Forget about the controversies, the out-of-Octagon misdemeanors, and the failed drug tests, Jones hasn't looked like the old Jones for a very long time.
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In late February, an especially ambitious bill was introduced in the California Legislature, allowing automatic expungement of misdemeanors and minor felonies after completion of a sentence.
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Seven people have pleaded no contest to misdemeanors as parts of plea deals, while others — including some of the highest-level employees — have cases still pending.
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Mr. Martinez has a long list of what his lawyer said were relatively minor crimes like low-level drug offenses, disorderly conduct and other petty misdemeanors.
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Mr. Gill said the hate crimes statute in Utah "underscores the insult to the injury" of an attack because it can be applied only to misdemeanors.
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For one, pushing impeachment too early could weaken Democrats' hand if investigators turn up persuasive evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that could compel bipartisan action.
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Whether it is impeachable will be decided by the House, which will determine if it amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors," as outlined in the Constitution.
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Between the lines: The Constitution's standards for impeachable offenses like "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not defined within the document — leaving them open to legal analysis.
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He was also charged with three misdemeanors: hunting with an unlawful weapon, hunting without a big game license and hunting without a license, the outlet reported.
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Authorities took advantage of the term's vagueness to apply it to offenses, even misdemeanors, that recently freed blacks were far more likely to be charged with.
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"The president is charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Senate must take seriously its constitutional role in this process," Harris said in a statement.
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She said she had taken it out again to better understand what the founders meant by setting the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors" for impeachment.
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The charges against the press secretary, Jenna Garland, were misdemeanors, and Judge Jane Morrison of Fulton County State Court set the fines at $750 per violation.
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Even if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution's 'treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors' standard for an impeachable offense.
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The argument centers on the meaning of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" as laid out in the Constitution as the basis for impeachment.
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On the day Democrats formally charged President Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would cut a deal with him on trade.
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Two men identified as security guards for Mr. Higgins — Christopher Long, 36, and Henry Dean, 27 — were charged with misdemeanors for illegally possessing guns and ammunition.
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In 2016, voters in the state approved ballot measures reducing some property and drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, and allocating the savings to rehabilitation programs.
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The hearing on Wednesday was the committee's first to examine whether Trump's actions qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors" punishable by impeachment under the U.S. Constitution.
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One protester, Loan Tran, accepted deferred prosecution on three misdemeanors in December and promised to pay $1,250 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service.
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Under the Constitution, a president can be impeached for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" — terminology that has been the subject of some debate.
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The Constitution says the president can be impeached for treason, bribery, or "other high Crimes or Misdemeanors," but leaves the definition of that final category vague.
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The big picture: A series of reforms in 2016 changed multiple low-level felonies in Oklahoma to misdemeanors, including the possession of small amounts of drugs.
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The Constitution says that a president can be removed for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," which members of Congress can essentially define themselves.
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Key Moments: The Day the House Impeached Trump: The historic votes charged the president with "high crimes and misdemeanors" in connection with a Ukraine pressure campaign.
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The six also still face five other charges of property damage as well as two misdemeanors and Leibovitz denied the defense's motion to acquit on Wednesday.
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We're told Brittney retreated to her apartment, but a little while later NYPD showed up to haul her in for assault and aggravated harassment ... both misdemeanors.
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The 10 facing misdemeanors are: Braxton Becker, Joseph Ems Jr., Ryan Foster, Edward Gilmartin, Craig Heimer, Lars Kenyon, Ryan McCann, Lucas Rockwell, Michael Schiavone and Parker Yochim.
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He was most recently arrested in January of last year for three misdemeanors and a felony charge of harassment with a bodily substance, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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We broke the story ... the troubled NFL star was arrested and charged with 4 misdemeanors -- including domestic violence -- after allegedly beating up his fiancee on March 3.
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Guards are held captive in their own offices, fed prison slop, and for misdemeanors, sent to the "Poo" (like the SHU, but it's a port-a-potty).
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In Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), he was Noodles, who led a gang of Jewish pals through a lifetime of scrapes and misdemeanors.
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It all depends on the magnitude and nature of the "bribery" or other "high crimes and misdemeanors" that may or may not be established by congressional investigators.
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It was not immediately clear if the Moodys had entered pleas to the charges or retained attorneys, though the typical punishment for such misdemeanors is a fine.
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Whether it is irrelevant that the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors is an endlessly debated argument about which, as a voter, I should not even know.
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The justice ministry this week in a confidential document seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation issued a notice telling the authorities not to recategorize rapes as 'misdemeanors'.
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If lawmakers established that Trump obstructed justice by seeking to impede Mueller, Nadler's panel could move to impeachment proceedings against the president for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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If lawmakers established that Trump obstructed justice by seeking to impede Mueller, Nadler's panel could move to impeachment proceedings against the president for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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For example, someone who re-enters the US illegally with a felony conviction or three misdemeanors on their record could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
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And the high crimes and misdemeanors was a way, borrowed from ancient Anglo-Saxon law, to express their concern and to put a mechanism into the Constitution.
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In 2016, Oklahoma voters approved a ballot question that reduced drug possession offenses from felonies, carrying potential prison sentences, to misdemeanors, with much shorter local jail sentences.
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A quid pro quo is not necessary to prove high crimes or misdemeanors, which is the standard the U.S. Constitution requires for the impeachment of a president.
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As the House opens public hearings into whether President Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the battle over President Bill Clinton's impeachment 21 years ago looms large.
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It is unclear if Cruz actually attended the program, which is meant to keep students who commit certain misdemeanors from getting involved in the criminal justice system.
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States also need to have better communication when it comes to records (mental health, domestic violence restraining orders, misdemeanors) and we need to close gun show loopholes.
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The Constitution itself offers little guidance: Presidents can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," which can mean whatever the House and Senate want it to mean.
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Uber rejects drivers with convictions in the previous seven years for drunk driving or reckless driving infractions and for felonies or misdemeanors involving theft, violence or drugs.
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The New Hampshire attorney general's office on Thursday announced the arrest of Jeff Woodburn, charging him with several misdemeanors, including simple assault, domestic violence and criminal trespass.
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Some have partial bans and screen only for certain crimes, such as sex offenses or arson, or allow those who were convicted of misdemeanors but not felonies.
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Impeachment is a legal process, in that the US Constitution provides for charging of "high crimes or misdemeanors" by the House, followed by trial in the Senate.
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In its articles of impeachment, the House should add Trump's repeated practice of witness intimidation over three years as an abuse of power and as high misdemeanors.
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Police officers often have the discretion to issue tickets and summonses for many misdemeanors, and that's what they should do, rather than booking people on such charges.
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" Probably the most important of the questions of the moment addressed by Mr. Berger concerns the proper meaning to be given the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The officer, Christopher W. Hickman, 31, was charged on Thursday with assault by strangulation, a felony, and assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats, which are misdemeanors.
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Instead, "high crimes and misdemeanors" was the result — a recognition that flexibility would be needed and future generations would need a term they could define for themselves.
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Ms. Hartman has been convicted of misdemeanors for criminal trespassing at O'Hare four times in recent years, Ms. Simonton said, but this is her first felony charge.
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The measure, which mirrors laws already on the books in three U.S. states, would prohibit people convicted of certain violent hate crime misdemeanors from possessing a gun.
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New York's Raise the Age legislation, signed into law in 2017, required that 16- and 17-year-olds charged with most misdemeanors be tried in family court.
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In bringing the case, Mr. Vance also announced his office had secured guilty pleas — most of them for misdemeanors — from seven low-level employees at the firm.
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He also argued on ABC's "This Week" that the House's charges against Trump aren't the kind of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" imagined by the nation's founders.
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There are three big impeachable offenses: treason and bribery are pretty clear cut, but "high crimes and misdemeanors" leaves room for argument, which leaves room for politics.
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Records also show Neal was charged in January with five felonies and two misdemeanors, including illegally firing a weapon and possessing an assault rifle, the AP reported.
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He was arrested on December 9 and charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and resisting arrest, Ada County Sheriff's Office spokesman Patrick Orr told CNN.
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What's next: The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing at 10 am ET on Wednesday examining whether Trump's actions toward Ukraine qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Both men denied any wrongdoing, but Mr. Bentley remained a political liability to Mr. Strange, especially after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and resigned in April.
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Over the past few weeks, some commentators have suggested that the phrasing "high crimes and misdemeanors" is an intentionally vague term that has no specific articulable definition.
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WASHINGTON — An impeachment investigation to potentially try to remove the president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors would seem to be fairly clear-cut.
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He later pled not guilty to 7 misdemeanors -- domestic violence, child endangerment, brandishing a weapon, criminal threats, false imprisonment [of Jen] and 2 counts of resisting arrest.
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After hobnobbing with the queen, the president now faces the daunting likelihood that by Christmas he will become the third president impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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That is why he insisted on specific, daunting criteria for impeachment, "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," rather than "maladministration," as some framers had suggested.
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A German of the postwar era, he has wrestled, monumentally, with the long hangover of German guilt from the terrible misdemeanors of the past like none other.
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On Wednesday, Trump became only the third president to be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and will now face a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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In addition to murder, Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, was found guilty of malicious intimidation or harassment, a hate crime, and threatening an act of violence, both misdemeanors.
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She spent 30 days there in order to avoid jail after pleading no contest to 8 misdemeanors, including 6 involving battery on a police officer or EMT.
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According to court records, obtained by TMZ Sports, Shumpert was charged with DUI (drugs), marijuana possession (less than an ounce) and failure to maintain lane -- all misdemeanors.
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According to court records, Mr. Blanchett pleaded guilty in 2016 to possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer without violence, both misdemeanors of the first degree.
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Although "high crimes and misdemeanors" is also undefined, historical sources at the time of the Constitution's ratification, as well as historical practice since then, offer some insight.
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The deal would eliminate bail for all misdemeanors, except those involving sexual misbehavior, and for nonviolent felonies, second-degree robbery and second-degree burglary, Ms. Walker said.
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Sherman's draft calls for Trump's impeachment over "high crimes and misdemeanors," asserting that Trump obstructed justice by "threatening, and then terminating" James Comey as head of the FBI.
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This investigation revolves around a very serious question -- the integrity of the electoral process and the potential high crimes and misdemeanors of key members of Trump's inner circle.
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One person pleaded guilty to a felony charge and was sentenced to four months in jail; the rest pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and did not go to jail.
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The elephant in the room in discussions about the alleged crimes and misdemeanors of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein looks eerily similar to an elephant of the past.
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Currently, 15 states require people under domestic violence restraining orders to turn in their guns, and 10 states require those convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors to do so.
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Other ballot initiatives: Ohioans will vote on a constitutional amendment that would classify offenses related to drug possession as misdemeanors — largely in response to the state's opioid epidemic.
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Diamond was convicted last year of two misdemeanors after pleading not guilty in the case of a stabbing of a man in a barroom brawl on Christmas Day.
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In 2014, Huawei launched its own anti-graft campaign, and more than 4,000 employees admitted to violating various company policies, ranging from small misdemeanors to bribery and corruption.
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Starting February 1, an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch, the company will notify disqualified drivers and let them know about the process for having their felonies reclassified as misdemeanors.
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" Critics would need to settle on one argument The Constitution states that a president can be impeached if convicted of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Colorado, for example, did not let people with previous pot misdemeanors clear their records until the legislature voted to allow it in 2017, after California's legalization measure passed.
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Prosecutors have finally hit Darren McFadden with charges in his wild Whataburger case ... charging the ex-NFL star with 2 misdemeanors that carry jail time if he's convicted.
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Both counts are defined as Class A misdemeanors in Texas ... which means McFadden is facing up to 2 YEARS behind bars and $8,000 in fines if he's convicted.
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Misdemeanors included stuffing containers with mixed or toxic rubbish rather than the specific types labeled for recycling, and illegal smuggling of waste that was simply dumped in landfill.
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The energy company likely will face four misdemeanors in connection with a gas leak at its Aliso Canyon facility, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Tuesday.
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The second case concerned two men from Pennsylvania who challenged the scope of a federal law that bans felons and some individuals charged with misdemeanors from possessing firearms.
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We broke the story ... the former NFL star had been arrested and charged with 4 misdemeanors -- including domestic violence -- after allegedly beating up his fiancee on March 3.
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That's a big deal because she was only facing misdemeanors -- for assault and reckless endangerment -- but with a grand jury on the case, the charges could be upgraded.
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Of course, Pacman was then put in cuffs ... and was eventually hit with a bevy of charges, including felony intimidation, felony battery against an officer and several misdemeanors.
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The court was told the misdemeanors began on April 20 at Singapore's Changi Airport when Darragh assaulted a policeman while on a stopover en route to Cebu, Philippines.
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I'm experiencing 2628 déjà vu as prosecutors once again work overtime to turn extramarital affairs and the efforts to keep them secret into impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Kevin Stitt signed a law streamlining the process for people already sentenced to prison for these crimes to apply for commutation and reduction of their charge to misdemeanors.
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With Allen, a lot of his humor was subversive in that it made super-masculine guys look stupid, which was well-deserved (I'm thinking of Crimes and Misdemeanors).
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The 2015 Maryland Second Chance Act, which went into effect in October, allowed shielding for 12 types of nonviolent misdemeanors, including prostitution and low levels of drug possession.
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Second, Trump may not be impeached because his actions, even if one finds them inappropriate, do not approach the abuse-of-power predicate for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The "Bodak Yellow" performer turned herself into New York Police in October and was charged with two misdemeanors counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of assault.
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When it became clear that President Nixon had committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the committee was crucial in making certain that he was held accountable for his actions.
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They instead impeach based on whether the president committed "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" as outlined in Article II, Section 4 of the US constitution.
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They would seem to deny Congress the power to impeach a president without proof that he or she engaged in treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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When pharmaceutical companies have been heavily penalized over marketing schemes and fraud, their leaders have typically settled the cases — or, more rarely, pleaded to misdemeanors — and walked away.
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The detective who was assigned to investigate the break-in had decided that if any charges were brought they would be misdemeanors, and the deputy county attorney agreed.
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Now, we've learned Ball struck a deal with prosecutors in which he plead guilty to 2 counts of "bail jumping" and one count of resisting arrest ... all misdemeanors.
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" He added that he's not advocating lawlessness: "Make rolling decisions as public health picture evolves, so public knows that any misdemeanors committed going forward could still be punished.
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If you're going to steal a pizza—and we are in no way suggesting that anyone should do this—at least put some effort into your eventual misdemeanors.
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And they can really impeach him for whatever they want — the Constitution refers to "high crimes and misdemeanors," but it's up to Congress to determine what those are.
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And prosecutors in San Francisco and San Diego have been more proactive, with both cities planning to automatically dismiss misdemeanor convictions and to reduce felony convictions to misdemeanors.
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Now, a ballot initiative is currently underway to expand California's state database to allow for the mandatory collection of DNA from "persons convicted of specified misdemeanors" as well.
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Both men were released on bail, and the charges were reduced to misdemeanors — an indication that whatever damage they had caused was considerably less than the initial estimates.
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Lawyers for the president advanced a theory rejected by most scholars that neither abuse of power nor obstruction of Congress met the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Wednesday's bill passed with amendments that moved the minimum age for medical interventions from 18 to 16 and made violations Class 1 misdemeanors instead of Class 4 felonies.
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Last month, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump — that is, to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors that merit his removal from the presidency.
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House Democrats took pains to define each of these ahead of the impeachment vote, specifically defining high crimes and misdemeanors as including abuse of power, betrayal, and corruption.
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"That ensures that the shocking language describing Trump's actions — 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' 'threat to national security,' and 'clear and present danger' — are not partisan weapons," it added.
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Golden State law enforcement will only be allowed to cooperate with federal authorities regarding individuals who have been convicted of committing a specified list of felonies or misdemeanors.
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The big picture: The hearing will focus on the constitutional grounds for impeachment and will examine whether President Trump's actions toward Ukraine qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Last week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment charging Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors, including abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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This is a felony offense that can result in a sentence of up to three years in prison, unlike the failure to file charges, which are only misdemeanors.
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The Constitution permits impeachment only for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" and requires a supermajority two-thirds vote in the Senate to convict and remove.
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Last month, two 13-year-old students within the Shawnee Mission district even brought guns to their middle school and were charged with misdemeanors, according to the Star.
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And in doing so, he has aligned himself more closely with the tragic example of Richard Nixon, who resigned as Congress accused him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Once impeached by the House, the Senate will conduct a trial to determine if Trump is actually responsible for "high crimes and misdemeanors," as phrased by the Constitution.
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Democratic leaders insisted on Sunday that Congress owed it to the country to air what they believe are serious charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — On the day that House Democrats formally accused President Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, something unusual happened in the capital: Divided government actually started to work.
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Impeachment is a finding or an allegation that the object of the impeachment — in this case the president — has committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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If true, such behavior would clearly represent an abuse of power, precisely among the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that the nation's founders intended to be an impeachable offense.
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" Trump's impeachment has become about more than the misbehavior of a President and the Democratic claim that his actions reach the constitutional bar of "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The sort of experience you need for federal district court, he said, is not the kind of experience you need to be trying misdemeanors in a county court.
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The two articles of impeachment were the product of weeks of agonizing debate inside the Democratic caucus about which "high crimes and misdemeanors" to bring to the floor.
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It would turn what should be a substantive discussion of Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors into a mundane procedural debate, just as Trump's allies have sought all along.
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More than half of the states have a statutory presumption of citation for certain offenses, and some task force members are interested in making most misdemeanors citation-only.
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Gerhardt said that the framers expected that over time, there would be case law that would help to determine what constituted "high crimes and misdemeanors" eligible for impeachment.
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Other gun measures signed into law last week by Brown will do the following: -- Ban anyone convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanors from owning a firearm for life.
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"There are 100 views out there about the right way of dealing with the President, even among people who agree he's committed high crimes and misdemeanors," Raskin said.
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In Ohio, critics of Issue 1 pointed to another concern: that reducing drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors would make it harder to get people into addiction treatment.
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Webb's set to go to trial, but the reality is he's charged with misdemeanors, and the whole thing's on video -- so, all signs point to a plea deal.
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NFL superstar Terrell Suggs has been formally charged with 2 misdemeanors stemming from his Arizona car crash earlier this month ... and if convicted, he could face jail time.
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For the past five years, she's been the presiding municipal judge in Bessemer, outside Birmingham, where the cases that come before her are typically misdemeanors and traffic violations.
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But top San Francisco prosecutor George Gascon said on Wednesday he would not wait and would instead dismiss 3,038 misdemeanors and consider reducing an additional 4,900 felony marijuana charges.
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Sohn, identified in arrest records as Sonja Plack, was charged with felony possession of cocaine as well as misdemeanors relating to alleged possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana paraphernalia.
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Today&aposs Obama&aposs CIA director John Brennan tweeted in part, 'Donald Trump&aposs press conference performance in Helsinki rises and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Stuart Dunnings III, a former prosecuting attorney in central Michigan's Ingham County, was arrested in March and charged with 15 criminal counts, including felony pandering and multiple prostitution misdemeanors.
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The protesters faced 6 months in jail after being charged with leaving a spectator area and entering upon a stage as well as interfering with a performance -- both misdemeanors.
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The ultimate question for Democrats could end up being whether they need to follow every lead they discover in order to vote that Trump committed high crimes or misdemeanors.
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It's a difficult process during which a sitting president is charged with "treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors" and, if convicted, is subsequently removed from the position.
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Kraft and the other customers face misdemeanors, while the women "saved" were kept in jail for weeks or months, had their assets seized, and are looking at multiple felonies.
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Still, Weintraub's remarkable comments are evidence that it's not just Democrats who think Trump's conduct could meet the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" — and hence constitute impeachable offenses.
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Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors stare us in the face, and each day he remains in power is a day closer to the collapse of the rule of law.
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"The critical thing that those congressmen will have to show is that he's done something that will qualify as treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," Gerhardt said.
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The idea that within months of leaving office you are attacking the sitting president, calling him treasonous and accusing him of committing high crimes and misdemeanors is absolutely outrageous.
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They were each charged with one felony -- inciting a riot -- and three misdemeanors -- injury to personal property less than $200, injury to real property and defacing a public monument.
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Ex-USC football player Osa Masina pled guilty to 3 counts of sexual battery -- all misdemeanors -- in a Utah courtroom today ... and faces up to 3 years behind bars.
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Cuomo, a Democrat, will propose ending cash bail for people accused of nonviolent felonies or misdemeanors during Wednesday's State of the State speech, according to the New York Times.
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While Texas doesn't have any laws requiring electors to vote for whoever won its electoral votes, 29 states issue a variety of rarely enforced punishments, including fines and misdemeanors.
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The rest were either convicted of misdemeanors (often without a lawyer present) or never convicted of anything; they were never charged, had charges dropped or were found not guilty.
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The debate: The Democrats hoped that Mr. Kent's and Mr. Taylor's testimony would bolster their case that the president's wrongdoings rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Philando Castile had been pulled over 52 times on misdemeanors (including for driving without a muffler and not wearing a seatbelt) before he was shot and killed last week.
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Crawford was in front of an Omaha judge earlier Thursday on charges of property damage, trespassing, and disorderly conduct ... all misdemeanors .... and was convicted on two of the three.
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To pull this off, the move would be conducted administratively, as several public agencies, like the Parks and Health departments, agree to no longer treat certain offenses as misdemeanors.
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Critics also point out that the Dream Act, as it was written before this change, had already blocked people with felony convictions and most misdemeanors from earning legal status.
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They should not release people accused of violent acts who are likely to pose a threat, a group that can include those charged with misdemeanors relating to domestic violence.
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New York City said it would be releasing inmates convicted of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies who had less than a year left to serve, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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Then there's the president himself, Exhibit A of what happens when a country spends decades treating crimes by the poor as felonies and crimes by the powerful as misdemeanors.
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Mr. Heger was ultimately charged with two misdemeanors in Ms. Teeson's case: criminal sexual conduct in the fifth degree and interference with privacy at home using a surreptitious device.
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With guilty pleas on two misdemeanors on Monday, Robert J. Bentley, the "Love Gov," became the third Alabama governor in the last six to be convicted of a crime.
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He was handcuffed, forced to the ground and arrested and charged with three counts of third-degree assault and one count of criminal trespass, all of which are misdemeanors.
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In January, the state will outlaw cash bail for most people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies and will require prosecutors to provide evidence to the defense far earlier.
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Republicans have largely been quick to defend the president, saying the Democrats' impeachment push is based on baseless accusations and there is no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Ms. Hincapié said that Mr. Montes, who first received DACA protection in 2014, has a record of four misdemeanors: three for driving without a license and one for shoplifting.
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The term "high crimes and misdemeanors" came out of the British common law tradition: it was the sort of offense that Parliament cited in removing crown officials for centuries.
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So when the announcement came on Tuesday that the House would consider charging him with high crimes and misdemeanors, President Trump made clear he was ready for a fight.
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Mueller, whose work will take many months at least, is investigating violations of criminal law, but "high crimes and misdemeanors," the grounds for impeachment, are not confined to that.
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As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, President Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.
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As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, Mr. Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.
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" Democrats seized on the testimony with Schiff saying that it went "right to the heart of the issue of bribery as well as other potential high crimes or misdemeanors.
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"I came to the conclusion that it didn't rise to the high crimes and misdemeanors standard and that there shouldn't be impeachment," Schumer said in one debate with D'Amato.
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" The President was heavily critical of Democrats' pursuit of impeachment, defending himself by asserting that the Articles of Impeachment introduced "include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.
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The musician, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, was charged with two misdemeanors counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of assault, an NYPD spokesperson told CNN. .
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Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, laid out his case against the president, citing the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that his party believes the president committed.
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Obviously, those concepts, despite being more specific and familiar that the terms high crimes and misdemeanors, are also broad, and so the report works to define them as follows.
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Treating the words high crimes and misdemeanors as if they hold real significance, however, is a way of protesting that the world should not be as it inevitably is.
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The House Judiciary Committee was making a crucial point now and as a clear precedent for future federal officials: high crimes and misdemeanors do not require a statutory felony.
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She was convicted of two misdemeanors, one for using falsified documents and another for illegally re-entering the United States after attending her mother's funeral in Mexico, he said.
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"I believe he can be found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, with the interaction and the collusion that is taking place with Russia and the Kremlin," she said.
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Of those who think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings, 58 percent say it's because Trump committed an impeachable offense, such as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Prosecutors got more ... Ross pled no contest to 5 misdemeanors -- assault, battery, 2 counts of pointing a pistol at someone, and possession of less than 1 oz of pot.
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Most men charged with similar misdemeanors accept deals that include fines, community service and a presumption of guilt in return for no jail time and having the charges dropped.
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On Friday, Frieden pleaded not guilty to three charges — two misdemeanors and a noncriminal violation — and surrendered his passport until his next court date of October 11, BuzzFeed reported.
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In Ohio, critics of Issue 1 have pointed to another concern: that reducing drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors will make it harder to get people into addiction treatment.
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We're told at least 2 of the crew members live outside the state, and Atlanta PD won't spend resources to extradite the suspects ... because they're only charged with misdemeanors.
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The L.A. County District Attorney's Office has just charged Madsen with 2 misdemeanors for DUI -- but the complication for him is this is his second DUI within 10 years.
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The other person who climbed to the rafters to unleash the banner, 28-year-old Sen Holiday, is currently on trial after she pleaded not guilty to the same misdemeanors.
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Outside one speaking event in 2005, Berchtold got into a fight with a group of BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse) members and was charged with 3 felonies and 2 misdemeanors.
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Because the Constitution's language on the ground for impeachment -- "high crimes and misdemeanors" -- is decidedly vague, there's plenty of room to roam for a House majority willing to do so.
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" (Portman statement) Pat Roberts Clinton: "Do these actions rise to the level envisioned by our founding fathers in the Constitution as 'high crimes and misdemeanors' so warranting removal from office?
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But people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors against partners with whom they never lived are not prohibited from owning guns under federal law, nor are those convicted of misdemeanor stalking.
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While the band didn't get taken away by police like they do in the movie, 18 concertgoers were arrested outside the venue and charged with misdemeanors, according to the book.
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The Morton County Sheriff's Department said on its Facebook page that both Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, have been charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors.
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An ethics commission report said Bentley committed several felonies to keep all this a secret, but he only pleaded guilty to a few misdemeanors as part of his resignation. 2.
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She was previously charged with two misdemeanors — possession of a controlled substance and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia — after being allegedly found with drugs in her car in June 2016.
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Democratic House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Sunday argued that there was "very substantial evidence" the President was guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors" -- the Constitutional standard for impeachment.
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Those criminal aliens include both documented and undocumented immigrants who have been convicted for felonies or multiple or serious misdemeanors, and those who have committed criminal violations of immigration law.
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It could have been a lot worse for him, though -- he was originally hit with a bevy of charges including felony intimidation, felony battery against an officer and several misdemeanors.
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Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler has been formally charged with 3 misdemeanors for allegedly roughing up a dude in an apartment parking lot last month ... TMZ Sports has learned.
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The discipline, for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy, comes three months after he pleaded guilty in Arizona to three misdemeanors, two of which involved his 593-year-old grandmother.
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Jerry Brown implemented "realignment," shifting low-level offenders from state prison to county jail, and when voters passed Proposition 47, which reduced certain drug, theft and other felonies to misdemeanors.
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In a sketch that I'm guessing Donald Glover had a hand in, Chance starred as a kid getting mad at Batman for his heavy-handed, broken windows approach to misdemeanors.
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Background reading: In the first nationally televised hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Democrats will look to make the case that Mr. Trump's dealings with Ukraine constitute high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The bill creates a presumption in favor of incarceration for even many low-level offenses and misdemeanors for which people were frequently released (or given low bail) in the past.
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Mizuno is a morally suspect, slothful and self-centered man, yet he's sufficiently talented that his social misdemeanors — rent arrears, missed deadlines, personal debts, lies, cruelty to others — are tolerated.
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Several years earlier, following similar criticism there, Broward County officers and schools created a program to avoid arrests for nonviolent misdemeanors such as disorderly conduct and alcohol and marijuana use.
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But up to now, "high crimes and misdemeanors" has involved at least some basis in legal fact — President Clinton's perjury or President Johnson's defiance of the Tenure of Office Act.
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BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) - China's banking and insurance regulator said on Friday a series of small and medium-sized bank inspections has uncovered a number of rule violations and misdemeanors.
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From Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's liberal urban stronghold to Mr. Delgado's rural district, many voters appeared to be more interested in talking about regional issues than about high crimes and misdemeanors.
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An estimated 28500 million Americans have felony criminal records; add in misdemeanors and the estimates of people with criminal records range from one-fifth to one-third of U.S. adults.
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Now the former independent counsel whose investigation led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment two decades ago will come to the defense of another president charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.
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WASHINGTON — The House managers prosecuting President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors have failed so far to persuade Senate Republicans to let them call new witnesses in his impeachment trial.
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And, as the early history of the impeachment power shows, the words "high crimes and misdemeanors" stretch broadly to reach non-criminal violations of the public trust or even incompetence.
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As circuit judges, they hear all kinds of cases — small claims, felonies, misdemeanors — though Judge Jacobs's office said about 90 percent of the cases his court hears are drug-related.
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They say such conduct rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and that leaving a lawless president in office presents a threat to the country and its interests.
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In the past five years, several state legislatures, including South Dakota, have introduced bills that would turn protesters into felons by reclassifying basic impeding actions as crimes rather than misdemeanors.
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House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler kicked off the arguments on Thursday, making the case that Trump has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" — impeachable offenses as defined by the Constitution.
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It was in 2755 that the judges of the St. Louis court started to use the company's services — which previously involved people on probation for misdemeanors — for defendants awaiting trial.
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Forty-nine percent of respondents said they think that a law eliminating cash bail for most misdemeanors and some nonviolent felony crimes is bad for the state of New York.
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"High crimes and misdemeanors" is a bar that is not cleared through hearsay, political commentary by disgruntled career diplomats or the flamboyant excesses of congresspeople from California or New York.
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On the same day that Democrats accused President Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, they also announced a deal with the White House over a revised North American trade agreement.
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No lawmaker is expected to cross party lines, and House Democratic leaders are eyeing a final vote to impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors as early as Tuesday.
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But if they do find evidence that Trump has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" in attacking core principles of US democracy, they will face an opposite and fateful political choice.
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Two months later, when Al Green, a Texas Democrat, offered his own House resolution accusing the president of "high misdemeanors", all but 66 members of his party voted it down.
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Part of the challenge with censure is it's not outlined in the Constitution as a way to punish the president for actions that fall short of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Democrats and legal experts counter, moreover, that the Constitution does not require that the courts weigh in before Congress can legitimately conclude Trump is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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And all experts will likely be called on to expound upon what constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors and to explore whether Trump's relationship with Ukraine could be described as such.
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Expect Democrats to work to link the president's behavior to those offenses — particularly bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors (which the report defines in part as including abuse of power).
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And, during this questioning, Democrats shortly laid out three actions they believed fall under high crimes and misdemeanors: abuse of power, betrayal of the national interest and corruption of elections.
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To cheat in such a way as to avoid being held accountable for cheating exists on a different plane than the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that the Constitution speaks of.
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At the time that US Citizenship and Immigration Services revoked Pacheco's DACA, he had been convicted of two misdemeanors — one a "minor drug offense" and the other an unspecified crime.
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