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Juan Luis Gutierrez Marfil, 45, of Napa, was charged Thursday with one felony count of recklessly causing a fire of a structure or forest, the Napa County district attorney’s office said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Misrepresenting your identity to obtain a ballot is a separate felony.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Maxwell had appealed against her five felony convictions, claiming her constitutional rights had been "violated in multiple respects".

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching a new process that allows individuals who lost their gun rights because of felony convictions to apply to have them reinstated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

He would be told that, if he pleads guilty to a felony, he will be deemed “unfit” for jury service and automatically excluded from juries for the rest of his life.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Four years later, an overwhelming majority of California voters approved Proposition 36, reversing a 2014 change that had commuted some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Such charges are often treated as misdemeanors rather than felonies, meaning lighter sentences if convicted.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Menkem pointed out that under Cameroonian law, the minimum sentence for felonies such as murder and arson is 10 years.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

The Constitution contemplates Congress having limited law-enforcement powers and even specifies crimes it can punish: treason, counterfeiting, “offences against the law of nations” and “piracies and felonies on the high seas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

People who have been convicted of felonies almost never truly re-enter the society they inhabited prior to their conviction.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander