Word: misdemeanors
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...conception. The New York abortion statutes, which were prototypes for many other state laws, distinguished between the abortion of "quickened" fetuses (those capable of locomotion in the womb) and the abortion of "pre-quickened" fetuses: the first case was treated as second-degree manslaughter, the second as a misdemeanor...
...laws are often inadequate to deal with the complexities of the new technology. In March two members of Milwaukee's 414 Gang of computer whiz kids, which last summer broke into computers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of making obscene or harassing phone calls. Maximum sentence for each charge: six months in jail and a $500 fine...
...REAP's main provisions changed the status of tax evasion from a misdemeanor to a felony, which now carries a jail sentence of up to five years and fines of $100,000 for those convicted under the new laws...
With good reason. Last year the state legislature made tax evasion, which had been a misdemeanor, a felony with a maximum sentence of five years in prison...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South, is a double-edged blade...