• Loss of rights due to criminal conviction refers to the practice in some countries of reducing the rights of individuals who have been convicted of a...
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  • mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that...
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    probation. Felony disenfranchisement is one among the collateral consequences of criminal conviction and the loss of rights due to conviction for criminal...
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  • probation. Felony disenfranchisement is one among the collateral consequences of criminal conviction and the loss of rights due to conviction for criminal...
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  • unemployment Loss of rights due to felony conviction Sharon Dietrich; Maurice Emsellem; Catherine Ruckelshaus (1998), Work Reform: The Other Side of Welfare...
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  • Second-class citizen (category Equality rights)
    crowd of thousands on March 21, 1960. Blacklisting Dégradation nationale Dhimmi and Dhimmitude Involuntary unemployment Loss of rights due to felony conviction...
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    and Business in Ramat Gan, most wrongful convictions in Israel relate to less serious crimes than major felonies such as rape and murder, as judicial systems...
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    protections of this amendment through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. One provision of the Fifth Amendment requires that most felonies be tried...
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    The proposition restored the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation...
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  • not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court. The...
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  • Double Jeopardy Clause (category Clauses of the United States Constitution)
    Jeopardy does not attach in a retrial of a conviction that was reversed on appeal on procedural grounds (as opposed to evidentiary insufficiency grounds)...
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    amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following...
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    ˹any of˺ this will face the penalty." [Quran 25:68] The term assassin derives from Hashshashin, a militant Ismaili Shi'ite sect, active from the 8th to 14th...
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  • counts, including one count of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of cruelty to children, and one count of concealing a death. The jury...
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    shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for the first conviction and a felony for the second and each subsequent conviction. (b) For the purpose of this title, "drag...
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  • punishable as a class 4 felony, and a second or subsequent offense after a prior conviction is a class 3 felony (see classes of felonies) with different state...
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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate...
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  • also face[d] felony charges of keeping a mischievous dog". The trial by jury, which began in January 2002, "was moved to Los Angeles because of extensive...
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  • example, in the legal system of the United States, a criminal defendant charged with a felony theft charge, the conviction of which would require imprisonment...
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  • Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban (category Acts of the 104th United States Congress)
    convicted of a felony and anyone subject to a domestic violence protective order from possessing a firearm. The act also makes it unlawful to knowingly...
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    is later, however if the felony conviction was outside of Texas, Federal Law prohibits possession unless the gun rights of the possessor have been restored...
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  • United States Loss of rights due to conviction for criminal offense Disfranchisement § Based on criminal conviction Padilla v. Commonwealth of Kentucky Personal...
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  • to the United States Department of State and international, Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations, there have been credible reports of human...
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    Paragraph 175 (category Law of East Germany)
    imprisonment of six months to four years, with the further punishment of a prompt loss of civil rights. In France, the Revolutionary Penal Code of 1791 punished...
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    defendant shall provide access to any requested financial information. The ban on associating with persons with felony convictions has been criticized on the...
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    maximum sentence of 25 years to life. In California, a conviction for arson of property that is not one's own is a felony punishable by up to three years in...
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    High treason in the United Kingdom (category Law of the United Kingdom)
    imprisonment instead of death (but today, due to the abolition of the death penalty, the maximum penalty both for high treason and treason felony is the same—life...
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  • Treason laws in the United States (category State constitutions of the United States)
    lesser of one-half of sentence or 15 years) or life imprisonment (eligible for parole after 10 years). A treason conviction also results in loss of voting...
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    Matias Reyes confessed to the Meili assault and claimed he was the only actor; DNA evidence confirmed his involvement. The convictions against McCray, Richardson...
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    are a felony under section 165 of the same statute, punishable by 5 years' imprisonment. On 24 May 2019, the High Court of Kenya refused an order to declare...
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