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criminal offence in the second degree, second degree crime
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Def: an offence the punishment prescribed for which is imprisonment for a term of up to five years or a pecuniary punishment
Example: Examples of Second-Degree Crimes
■Aggravated assault (may be charged as 4th, 3rd, or 2nd degree crime)
■Certain types of sexual assaults
■Drug distribution in smaller quantities
■Manslaughter (aggravated manslaughter is a crime of the 1st degree)
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