misdemeanors

While Gaulden will not face prison time in Utah, his four felony charges were reduced to Class A misdemeanors and he was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine, according to KTVX-TV.

Hochman’s agenda includes a return to seeking the death penalty, an increase in the prosecution of low-level misdemeanors and using sentencing enhancements to seek long prison terms in cases that involve guns or gangs.

The Senate found that he did not reach the standard of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" and dismissed the charges.

But she was arrested nearby and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and making criminal threats, both misdemeanors.

Proposition 47 reduced certain property and hard drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and arrests plummeted, the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found in a year-long study.