{"id":63,"date":"2020-06-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/2020\/06\/14\/could-unruly-airline-passengers-prompt-federal-prosecutions\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T09:00:00","slug":"could-unruly-airline-passengers-prompt-federal-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/2020\/06\/14\/could-unruly-airline-passengers-prompt-federal-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Unruly Airline Passengers Prompt Federal Prosecutions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports of disruptive behaviour on commercial flights have climbed sharply, and regulators are no longer treating them as a customer-service problem.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From fines to felonies<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interfering with a flight crew is a federal offence, and what once ended with a civil fine is increasingly being referred for criminal prosecution. Penalties can include substantial fines and, in serious cases, imprisonment.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the shift matters<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal charges carry consequences well beyond the courtroom: travel restrictions, employment screening flags, and a permanent record. Anyone contacted by investigators after an in-flight incident should speak with counsel before giving a statement.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The safest advice is also the simplest, but for those already facing an accusation, early and experienced representation makes a measurable difference.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How rising in-flight incidents are pushing prosecutors toward tougher federal charges and penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32,33,34],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-criminal-defense","tag-federal-law","tag-legal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}