Synonyms for misdemeanors
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1. List of paraphrases for "misdemeanors":

   delicts, misdemeanours, offences

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1. Alan Gottlieb:

   Under existing federal law many people convicted of non-violent state-level misdemeanors have lost their Second Amendment rights because they’ve been lumped together with convicted felons due to indeterminate sentencing laws, that’s not right, and cases like this help restore some perspective and narrow some broad legislative brush strokes.

2. National Review:

   Proposition 47 downgraded a variety of ‘non-serious, nonviolent crimes’ that had previously been considered felonies to misdemeanors…. A thief may now steal something under (a $950 limit) on a daily basis and it will never rise to felony status.… In the event that a perpetrator is pursued and apprehended, the consequence can be a small fine or a brief stay in jail. In reality, these repercussions are rare, outrage in these circumstances is apolitical…. ‘Every bicycle in our building has been stolen,’ says Karen Burns, president of a San Francisco condo association. ‘I’ve caught so many people stealing packages. They don’t care. They know nothing will happen to them. It’s crazy. It’s horrible. I feel like these people need to go to jail.’.

3. Phil Robertson:

   The Singapore judicial system’s shameful recourse to using torture – in the form of caning – to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country’s international reputation.

4. Josh Matz:

   A lot of folks think that impeachment is this mechanical process and that when the president commits high crimes and misdemeanors, [ it ] just falls out of the sky like some kind of sword of Damocles, i'm here to tell you that it doesn't. Congress has to decide whether impeachment is the right move.

5. Patrick Lynch:

   We agree that crime stats have to be accurate in order to know where and when to assign police resources, however, because of the serious shortage of police officers over the last decade and a half, management has consistently hammered police officers to reduce felonies to misdemeanors.