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Felony probation is capped at 10 years (you can’t get more than 10 years probation).

In some states, a person who is sentenced to the death penalty can choose their method of execution.

The formal charging instrument in felony cases is called an information.

Under Texas law, a person with a blood-alcohol concentration of .08 or more is considered to be intoxicated regardless of how well s/he controls his/her mental and physical faculties.

Depending on how it was used, a coat hanger could be considered a deadly weapon.

Mark and Justin, college roommates, decide to blow off some steam after midterms, and go to the local bar where most of the students at SFA congregate.  After drinking a couple beers each, Justin begins telling Mark that he thinks Mark’s girlfriend is cheating on him. Mark, becoming upset, tells Justin that his girlfriend is not a skank, and that Justin needs to shut the hell up. Justin insists that he is just trying to be a good friend, and that Mark is being naive and needs to open his eyes. The conversation goes down hill from there, to the point where both young men are screaming at each other. Becoming more and more upset, and desperate to have Justin shut up, Mark grabs a full bottle of vodka from behind the bar, and smashes it over Justin’s head.  Justin is violently knocked off of his bar still and falls to the floor, unconscious.  Justin suffered a concussion, had 4 teeth knocked out, had a cut on his face that required 15 stiches, and lost hearing in his left ear temporarily.  Mark will most likely be charged with

The punishment range for a second degree felony in Texas is 2-30 years in prison, and up to a $10,000 fine.

A person acts with criminal negligence when they should have been aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk, but were not.

One Saturday night, Karissa, Ryan, Sadie, and Josh, all 22 years old,  decide to go out and have some fun.  The four friends go to many different bars and dance and drink for most of the night.  By 1:00 am, all four of them are drunk.  Ryan feels like he is the least drunk, and offers to drive the four of them home, even though it is Karissa’s car.  So the four friends pile into Karissa’s car, with Ryan behind the wheel.   Because all four are drunk, they don’t notice that Ryan’s driving is horrible.   Unfortunately, Ryan is unable to maintain control of the vehicle, and it veers off the highway and smashes into a tree.  Sadie is killed instantly.  Ryan, Karissa and Josh all suffer injuries, but are all ok.  In connection with Sadie’s death, Ryan will most likely be charged with:

 Cain and Abel get into an argument.  Cain strikes Abel in the head with a wooden board.  Abel is knocked unconscious and languishes into a coma.  Two years after his injury, Abel dies.  The medical examiner determines that the blow to the head was the medical cause of Abel’s death.  Cain has committed: