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    Default Difference between a misdemeanor and disorderly conduct

    Hello,

    My lawyer is talking abt reducing the misdeamanor to disorderly conduct. What is the criminal difference in terms of fine , probation and long term sequelae?

    Please reply asap.

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    You should ask your lawyer the difference between the charges.

    This is the statute which is the typical basis for a "disorderly person" charge in Michigan, although there are also local ordinances violations which can be charged:
    Quote Quoting MCL 750.167 “Disorderly person” defined; subsequent violations by person convicted of refusing or neglecting to support family.
    (1) A person is a disorderly person if the person is any of the following:
    • (a) A person of sufficient ability who refuses or neglects to support his or her family.

      (b) A common prostitute.

      (c) A window peeper.

      (d) A person who engages in an illegal occupation or business.

      (e) A person who is intoxicated in a public place and who is either endangering directly the safety of another person or of property or is acting in a manner that causes a public disturbance.

      (f) A person who is engaged in indecent or obscene conduct in a public place.

      (g) A vagrant.

      (h) A person found begging in a public place.

      (i) A person found loitering in a house of ill fame or prostitution or place where prostitution or lewdness is practiced, encouraged, or allowed.

      (j) A person who knowingly loiters in or about a place where an illegal occupation or business is being conducted.

      (k) A person who loiters in or about a police station, police headquarters building, county jail, hospital, court building, or other public building or place for the purpose of soliciting employment of legal services or the services of sureties upon criminal recognizances.

      (l) A person who is found jostling or roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a public place.
    (2) When a person, who has been convicted of refusing or neglecting to support his or her family under this section, is then charged with subsequent violations within a period of 2 years, that person shall be prosecuted as a second offender, or third and subsequent offender, as provided in section 168, if the family of that person is then receiving public relief or support.
    Further,
    Quote Quoting 750.168 Disorderly person; penalty.
    Any person convicted of being a disorderly person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
    Thus, a "disorderly conduct" charge typically is a misdemeanor charge.

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