North Carolina · North Carolina General Statutes — Crimes & Controlled Substances
N.C.G.S. (Criminal Law) § 14-3: Punishment of misdemeanors, infamous offenses, offenses committed in secrecy and malice, or with deceit and intent to defraud, or with ethnic animosity
What this law says, in plain English
This statute establishes how unclassified misdemeanors are punished based on maximum imprisonment allowed. Certain misdemeanors done with secrecy, malice, deceit, or ethnic animosity may be elevated to felonies.
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