{"id":197,"date":"2006-10-15T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/15\/not-so-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors\/"},"modified":"2006-10-15T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T03:10:08","slug":"not-so-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/15\/not-so-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so high crimes and misdemeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">A not uncommon patron\u00a0question that I have\u00a0encountered is this: a rather sheepish inquiry as to whether there\u00a0exists a list of crimes designated felonies and those designated misdemeanors.\u00a0 Normally the place to check is the appropriate State or Federal code.\u00a0 As innocuous as this advice sounds, the task can seem quite formidable to the pro se: often such matters are not so\u00a0easily spelled out and some infractions are spread out throughout the code rather than in the Criminal or Penal Article.\u00a0 No wonder that pro se\u2019s respond to this suggested research route by a rather annoyed, \u201cDon\u2019t you just have a list?\u201d\u00a0 In Maryland, we do have something that can serve as a list\u2014<a title=\"Maryland Sentencing Manual\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msccsp.org\/guidelines\/April%202005%20Manual%20with%20Feb%202006%20Updated%20Offense%20Table.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Maryland Sentencing Guidelines Manual<\/a> and its <a title=\"Maryland Sentencing Guidelines Table\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msccsp.org\/guidelines\/Appendix%20A-Feb%2027%202006.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Guidelines Offense Table<\/a>, both available from the <a title=\"Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msccsp.org\/guidelines\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy<\/a>.<\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I can\u2019t say how many other states spell out whether a crime is a misdemeanor or felony in the same way as Maryland.\u00a0 But if you are interested, you might want to check out <a title=\"State Sentencing Commissions\" href=\"http:\/\/sentencing.nj.gov\/downloads\/pdf\/articles\/2006\/Sept2006\/document03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Law School\u2019s list of state sentencing commissions<\/a>.\u00a0 Follow the links to the state of interest.<\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A not uncommon patron\u00a0question that I have\u00a0encountered is this: a rather sheepish inquiry as to whether there\u00a0exists a list of crimes designated felonies and those designated misdemeanors.\u00a0 Normally the place to check is the appropriate State or Federal code.\u00a0 As innocuous as this advice sounds, the task can seem quite formidable to the pro se: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}