petty offense

Magistrate Judge Stephanie Hambrick dismissed a second petty offense for violating closures and use limits.

Both crimes are classified as "petty offense/misdemeanors".

Quaid’s role, a naive sailor sentenced to eight years’ time for a petty offense, nearly went to John Travolta.

The DOJ charged many of these individuals with unlawfully parading or demonstrating in the Capitol, a so-called petty offense.

The statute says a defendant can be sentenced to probation unless he “is sentenced at the same time to a term of imprisonment for the same or a different offense that is not a petty offense.”