How to Use in the first degree in a Sentence

in the first degree

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• He will be charged with murder in the first degree!
  — Kate Plummer shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
• This was murder in the first degree.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• He was acquitted of murder in the first degree.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
• The prosecution charged both men with two counts of felony murder in the first degree.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Lester has been charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Lester faces charges of assault in the first degree and armed criminal action.
  — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Lester has been charged with one count of felony assault in the first degree and one felony count of armed criminal action.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• The suspect was arrested on a complaint of murder in the first degree.
  — Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• The complaint says that Best has formally been charged with two counts of murder in the first degree.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Casey White was charged with escape in the first degree following his capture.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 July 2022
• Gilder was charged with grand theft in the first degree, and robbery with a mask, according to court documents.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
• He is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• Trump was found guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the first degree.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 May 2024
• The charge of assault in the first degree carries a potential punishment of up to life in prison.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The boy has also been charged with nine counts of assault in the first degree and three counts of assault in the second degree.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
• Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
• In 2015, a jury found Harold guilty of murder in the first degree.
  — Sean Keane, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2025
• Falsifying records in the first degree is subject to up to four years in prison, and a five-thousand-dollar fine.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
• Hamilton and DeMaio were also found guilty of burglary in the first degree.
  — Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
• Casey was later charged with escape in the first degree and felony murder in connection with Vicky’s death.
  — Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
• Khalid Kamau was charged with criminal trespass and burglary in the first degree.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree last year.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
• Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 17 May 2024
• The charge is 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, a class E felony.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
• Petty has also served time for manslaughter in the first degree for killing a man in 2002.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• She is charged with domestic violence in the first degree and assault in the first degree, police said.
  — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
• All 219 students were charged with criminal trespass in the first degree.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• Jamal was charged with luring a child, stalking in the second degree and harassment in the first degree.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
• He was taken to the county jail and charged with terroristic threatening in the first degree.
  — Compiled From Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024
• The parents were interviewed by police, and the mother was charged with child cruelty in the first degree.
  — Joshua Sharpe, ajc, 31 Jan. 2022