felony
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Menkem pointed out that under Cameroonian law, the minimum sentence for felonies such as murder and arson is 10 years.
From BBC
Amy Knox, the former chief operating officer of Harm Reduction-SD, was charged with three felony counts of misappropriating public money and three felony counts of embezzlement.
From Los Angeles Times
In California, offenders convicted of a violent felony can only earn credits for up to 15% of their sentence length.
From Los Angeles Times
“So it would have been a felony crime for us to turn Starlink on at that time,” Musk said in a post on X.
His 2017 investigation into the Chicago startup Outcome Health led directly to federal felony convictions or guilty pleas of six people including Outcome's top four executives.
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