nonjailable

adj

nonjailable

adj

Etymology From non- + jailable.

1

Not jailable.

  • The heart of Gail Atwater’s civil rights claim was that going to jail for a nonjailable offense should be a presumptively unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.2020, Alexandra Natapoff, “Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 133, number 147, page 157:

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