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This definitely needs much more elaboration. Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes. It should take much more than an unauthorized pizza purchase.
by kyledrake 10y ago
This definitely needs much more elaboration. Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes. It should take much more than an unauthorized pizza purchase.
- jhayward 10y ago> Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes Not true in any real sense. I've seen a State of Texas employee charged with a felony for making a $0.25 personal call from a state telephone back in the early 90's. The unreal magnitude of criminalization of "normal" behavior in the US is beyond anything most people can imagine.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes. This is true only in the tautological sense, in which designation of something as "felony" is held to designate it as a "very serious" crime. Beyond that, no. In fact, this is expressly recognized many places in law, such as California's three-strikes law, where a "strike" is a "violent or serious" felony.
- joesmo 10y ago"Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes." False. It's a real problem that people think this. No wonder our justice system in the US is so fucked up. People don't even know what's happening.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoAdultery is a felony in Michigan, though it's obviously not really enforced.