misdemeanor court

In 1998, he adopted a media law which created a special misdemeanor court to try violations.

Special courts-martial are considered "federal misdemeanor courts" because they cannot impose confinement longer than one year.

Dugo Selo has a misdemeanor court, a municipal court, a police station, a hospital and a post office.

Brunner also served as an adviser to Serbian misdemeanor court judges on outreach strategies to rebuild the public's confidence in elections systems.

Zelon works to ensure that her misdemeanor court is a relatively welcoming place for the defendants she comes face to face with on a daily basis.

In a case widely condemned by human rights groups, a Cairo misdemeanor court sentenced 21 men accused of homosexuality to three years in prison for practicing "sexual immorality."

Such cases usually involve minority inner-city youth and often end up in misdemeanor courts manned by the most inexperienced prosecutors, who think long and hard before dismissing a case, thus alienating the police.

Local officials here now acknowledge that their traffic and misdemeanor courts were illegal, but add that they were well-intentioned attempts to streamline the course of justice and unburden the state courts of minor cases.

In the early years, when Stern's practice mounted to little more than the decorous hustling of clients in the hallways of the misdemeanor courts, serving Dixon's unpredictable needs had paid Stern's rent.

In 2005 the Maadi misdemeanor court issued a verdict in a blasphemy case involving Ibrahim Ahmad Abu Shusha and 11 of his followers, who had been detained absent an arrest warrant since 2004.

But first, there is much seasoning in store, and on this recent day, it was what is called stand-up practice in misdemeanor court for Mr. Scott, a 25-year-old Brooklynite who graduated last spring from Albany Law School.

After a 5-year misdemeanor court battle over the $50 building permit, on June 5, 2006, Hovind pled nolo contendere as charged to three counts: constructing a building without a permit, refusing to sign a citation, and violating the county building code.

Although the rest of this article speaks to judicial processes, a writ of prohibition may be directed by any court of record (i.e., higher than a misdemeanor court) toward any official body, whether a court or a county, city or town government, that is within the court's jurisdiction.