The peer's lawyers said that their appeal for the incident to be dealt with as a 'minor misdemeanour' had been rejected.
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They will also be targeted for minor misdemeanours such as littering.
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In the most modest magistrates' court in the land, witnesses to even minor misdemeanours are required to swear on oath or affirm before giving evidence.
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For minor misdemeanours he made us write it out up to 20 times.
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In certain cases, these revealed evidence of past minor misdemeanours, but this did not, in itself, mean automatic exclusion from the programme.
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