Examples of petty offenses in the following topics:
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- The right to a jury has always depended on the nature of the offense with which the defendant is charged.
- Petty offenses are those punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months and are not covered by the jury requirement.
- Even where multiple petty offenses are concerned, the total time of imprisonment possibly exceeding six months, the right to a jury trial does not exist.
- Also, in the United States, except for serious offenses (such as murder), minors are usually tried in a juvenile court, which lessens the sentence allowed, but forfeits the right to a jury.
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- Merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other groups participated in local community government life.
- Local leaders found themselves directly negotiating and engaging with a wider body politic that included elites as well as petty farmers and ethnic immigrants who had a voice in the political process.
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- Compare the frequency of student responses in class discussions to the amount of support provided, and determine whether the student is independently engaging in class discussions (Brewer, Campbell, & Petty, 2000).
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- Bureaucracy may be defined as a form of government: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
- Bureaucracy may also be defined as a form of government: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
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- In criminal law, an offense against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm or force being applied to another person.
- They are usually analyzed by division into fatal offenses, sexual offenses, or non-fatal non-sexual offenses.
- Although most sexual offenses will also be offenses against the person, sexual crimes are usually categorized separately.
- Similarly, although many homicides also involve an offense against the person, they are usually categorized under the more serious category.
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- Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.
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- For example, it might have one account for petty cash, another for how much cash it has in one bank account, and another detailing how much money it has invested in a CD that will mature in less than three months.
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- By the end of January, a major Soviet offensive expelled German forces from the Leningrad region, ending the longest and most lethal siege in history.
- The Allied offensives in Italy had succeeded and, at the expense of allowing several German divisions to retreat, on June 4, Rome was captured.
- After that, the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany, but failed to cross the Rur river in a large offensive.
- Soon after that another Soviet strategic offensive forced German troops from Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland.
- By January, the offensive had been repulsed with no strategic objectives fulfilled.
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- The reduction in red tape, essentially means the reduction of petty government (and occasionally business) bureaucracy.
- Such processes are often very slow as it usually means a government employee who was fulfilling that petty function either loses some of their administrative power (and any indirect benefits that it may bestow) or a lower level office worker loses their job.