A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 20 years and $25,000 fines.
Felony is more about severity and consequences.
Misdemeanors punishable by a fine or “short” jail term, and a felony by more than a year in prison.
Felonies can also bring penalities like being barred from certain jobs forever, restrictions on firearm ownership and depending on state loosing the ability to vote.
Below those are things like traffic tickets or citations, which are typically a small fine and don’t involve a trial, unless you ask to talk to a judge.
Federal vs state is a question of jurisdiction rather than severity. You don’t hear about federal misdemeanors very often because federal prosecutors are more interested in things like “interstate smuggling” than “someone urinated in public on the lawn of the Des Moines Federal building”.
Or the weird “shot a burro from a helicopter”.
Personally, I think we really need a crackdown on airborne donkey hunting. (/S)
Felony is more about severity and consequences.
Misdemeanors punishable by a fine or “short” jail term, and a felony by more than a year in prison.
Felonies can also bring penalities like being barred from certain jobs forever, restrictions on firearm ownership and depending on state loosing the ability to vote.
Below those are things like traffic tickets or citations, which are typically a small fine and don’t involve a trial, unless you ask to talk to a judge.
Federal vs state is a question of jurisdiction rather than severity. You don’t hear about federal misdemeanors very often because federal prosecutors are more interested in things like “interstate smuggling” than “someone urinated in public on the lawn of the Des Moines Federal building”.
Or the weird “shot a burro from a helicopter”.
Personally, I think we really need a crackdown on airborne donkey hunting. (/S)