Major crime definition

Major crime means any crime included in 18 U. S. C s1153 and any equivalent crime defined under any state law.
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Major crime means criminal activity, other than relevant criminal activity, that involves an indictable offence punishable on conviction by a term of imprisonment not less than 14 years.
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Major crime arguably means something more than "serious crime", an expression with which most people are familiar and which the legislature could have used had it intended to refer only to criminal activity which leads to the commission of criminal offences of a serious nature. "Major crime" (as distinct from "serious crime") means "criminal activity which is unusually serious or significant".
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Related to Major crime

  • Violent crime means a forcible felony, as defined in Iowa Code section 702.11, and includes any other felony or aggravated misdemeanor which involved the actual or threatened infliction of physical or emotional injury on one or more persons.

  • Victim of a crime means a person who has suffered personal or

  • Serious crime means conduct constituting an offence punishable by a maximum deprivation of liberty of at least four years or a more serious penalty;

  • Ancillary crime or "ancillary charge" means any delinquent act committed by a juvenile as a part

  • Proceeds of crime means any property derived from or obtained, directly or indirectly, through the commission of an offence;