Federal Crimes Attorney in Morristown, New Jersey

How do the penalties for federal crimes compare to New Jersey state crimes?

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it varies with with the state obviously

the the federal law is is is consistent

throughout the 50 states in other words

all United States district courts cases

or or sentenced in in the same type of

way whereby states have individual

statutes Federal statutes or or one and

they apply to everyone in the country

who’s charged with a federal crime many

times uh penalties in federal cases are

more severe because of congress’s taking

up of certain cases for instance in gun

cases associated with drug offenses

there are extremely extremely

challenging sentences

severe sentences Associated for instance

with a a weapons offense possession of a

firearm during the commission of a

felony or associated with the commission

of a felony the penalties in federal

court can be much greater than in state

court for those so uh it’s a harsher

reality for someone charged with a

federal offense

foreign

Morristown, NJ criminal defense lawyer Blair R. Zwillman explains how the penalties for federal crimes compare to New Jersey state crimes.

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