(1) Looking like a patient, the incompetent misdemeanant is, however, treated more as a criminal with no indication that public safety is thereby increased or that individual therapeutic objectives are enhanced.
(2) The most commonly seen were misdemeanants, with psychotic illnesses who required long term antipsychotic medications and close contact with community treatment resources.
(3) The effect of this new law on patient care is examined by looking at the hospital course of 52 incompetent misdemeanants at one state facility.
Misdemeanor
Definition:
(n.) Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
(n.) A crime less than a felony.
Example Sentences:
(1) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
(2) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(3) But without structural reform to privatized probation, courts will continue to throw low-income, nonviolent offenders in jail – because those who are poor and commit misdemeanors simply can’t afford the high costs of going free.
(4) Freeman ultimately was sentenced to probation for a misdemeanor.
(5) Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze.
(6) He even served as a bodyguard at times, wading into crowds to grab protesters and facing misdemeanor criminal charges over allegedly manhandling a reporter.
(7) The charges range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree “depraved-heart” murder.
(8) According to police, Scott had previous convictions in juvenile court on misdemeanor drug charges and a pending felony case of drug possession with intent to distribute.
(9) As the New York Times editorial board explained on the eve of the arguments , "There are 12 million arrests in America each year, most for misdemeanors that can be as minor as jaywalking."
(10) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(11) Sherri Iacobelli, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press Newsome and Tyson, 30, also of Charlotte, had been charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to three years, or both.
(12) I pulled my guys out the next day because we weren’t there to go to war with these protesters.” The sheriff’s office said prosecutors were reviewing the case and the private guards could face misdemeanor charges.
(13) A person who publishes such information would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(14) Trait and type differences, defined by MMPI scale scores and profiles, of offenders arrested for misdemeanor assaultive and nonassaultive offenses were investigated.
(15) Additionally, the clerk risks a potential charge of official misconduct, a misdemeanor that could bring up to a year in jail.
(16) That didn't stop the police from arresting him on 13 misdemeanor charges, including "possession of an implement of crime."
(17) Federal law says migrants who improperly enter the country on what amounts to a misdemeanor trespass offense can face six months in prison.
(18) Several weeks later, police announced that Lewandowski had been charged with misdemeanor battery in the case.
(19) It was treated as a misdemeanor, and he was about to finish a diversion program which would have expunged all mention of it from his record, but it was deemed enough in the age of Trump to have him picked up and held overnight.
(20) We asked 303 practicing physicians in general internal medicine, family medicine, gastroenterology, or psychiatry to indicate whether possessing or using marijuana should be considered a felony, a misdemeanor, warrant the issuance of a citation, or be legalized.