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A statewide reporting project that included VOSD and dozens of other newsrooms last year found that California was only one of five states that doesn’t automatically decertify police officers for certain offenses and misconduct.

This season’s Mavericks had the most efficient offense in NBA history, and five of the 16 playoff teams are scoring more efficiently in the postseason than the Mavs did during the year.

The police report lists the offense allegedly committed by the two suspects as a misdemeanor “Threats to Do Bodily Harm.”

Since June, more than 75 percent of prosecutions involved drug importation offenses.

“I think it is a pretty reckless thing for him to do because Kristin will be back and other board members will see it and take offense,” Roe said.

But the fun starts when conservatives stop playing defense and go on offense.

To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

The most violent offense committed by Wahlberg occurred on the night of April 8, 1988.

If this were accurate, it would mean that the Wilson stopped Brown over a minor offense, not a felony.

Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.

In this way it will be managed with less offense and with more ease to the conscience than now.

In harmony with a fundamental rule of law, a member who has once been acquitted cannot be tried again for the same offense.

It is almost amusing to see the efforts they make to avoid shaking hands with people, without giving direct offense.

He described the men at the Lion d'Or as truculent, easily ready to take offense, difficult to persuade.

Any offense against the grammar of our language is a sin against good use.

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On this page you'll find 182 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to offense, such as: breach, crime, infraction, misdeed, misdemeanor, and sin.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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