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Act - making this crime only a summary offence - should be reconsidered.

Sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 create summary offences.

The summary offences of harassment "cast the net too wide".

This privilege probably also covers summary offences but there is no recent instance of its exercise.

The murder should come first, and the summary offence as a rather casual postscript.

In Scotland, the penalty for a summary offence is three months' imprisonment or a fine, but not both.

If the charge(s) is a summary offence, the Court will generally expect a plea to be taken.

For summary offences the custody rate was 1.8 per cent, the same as the 12 months ending June 2010.

Failure to obey such an order would typically be prosecuted as a summary offence.

Magistrates already hear all summary offences, and lesser cases of criminal damage.

Summary offences and powers are harmonised across the Services.

This is a summary offence which carries a maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment and/or a fine.

Section 9 creates a summary offence called "vehicle interference."

Violation of the Act is a summary offence.

This is a summary offence but is rarely prosecuted.

In England and Wales, it is a summary offence.

However it is today a summary offence.

Since assault is a summary offence, no prosecutions take place for attempted assault.

The offences included in the scheme are summary offences where the most likely court outcome would be a fine.

These provisions were then incorporated into the Summary Offences Act 1970, sec.

They have exclusive jurisdiction over summary offences.

The magistracy was classified as the lowest court that handled indictable and summary offences.

Summary offences are the least serious criminal offences.

Tillman pleaded guilty to the charge on January 4, 2010, the day his trial on this summary offence was to begin.

Summary offence, a crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment.

If the police do not find committing a summary offense, an arrest warrant is required.

The usual punishment from a summary offense is a small fine and/or Community Service.

He pleaded guilty to the two summary offenses and was fined $543.50.

The jurisdictions include civil claims and summary offenses.

Of the 20 fans arrested that day for summary offenses, 17 pleaded guilty or were found guilty.

For Example, in Pennsylvania, the courts have been clear that a citizen cannot make an arrest for a "summary offense."

Idleness was considered a disorderly offence in England punishable as a summary offense.

Summary Offenses are heard in Community Court, which is located on the 2nd Floor of 1401 Arch Street.

Public intoxication, also known as "drunk and disorderly", is a summary offense in some countries rated to public cases or displays of drunkenness.

The defendant doesn't have to admit to any wrongdoing when applying for ARD, but must plead guilty to any summary offenses, usually violations of the motor vehicle code.

On September 28, 1994, the city council of Erie, Pennsylvania, enacted Ordinance 75-1994, a public indecency ordinance that makes it a summary offense to knowingly or intentionally appear in public in a "state of nudity."

While the Eagles were engineering an upset of the rival Pittsburgh Steelers - they won the game, 23-20 - 20 fans were in the bowels of the stadium being charged with summary offenses, which are less serious than misdemeanors.

Permanent Magistrates have criminal jurisdiction over a wide range of indictable and summary offenses meriting up to 2 years of imprisonment and a fine of HK$100,000; a sentence of up to 3 years can be imposed in certain circumstances.

Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia, who serves as president of Centre County magisterial district judges, has instituted a policy whereby alternative adjudications, resulting in dismissal of summary offense charges, are not available for offenses occurring during State Patty's Day weekend.

Charges of burglary, simple assault and criminal solicitation against Scirrotto were subsequently dismissed by Centre County Presiding Judge, Charles C. Brown, Jr., but a felony charge of criminal trespass and a summary offense of harassment are still pending.

A court of summary jurisdiction on Antigua, which sits without a jury, deals with civil cases involving sums of up to $1500 EC; three magistrates' courts deal with summary offenses and civil cases of not more than $500 EC in value.

As a result of the charges against him - "misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and failure to disperse, as well as summary offenses of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness" - Gunn was suspended from the team indefinitely pending the result of his hearing.

The authority includes the power to stop vehicles suspected of Summary offenses, to issue citations for Summary offenses, and if a vehicle is stopped for a suspected Summary offense, to make arrests where evidence appears of additional offenses designated as Misdemeanors or Felonies.