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Third Degree

A colloquial term used to describe unlawful methods of coercing an individual to confess to a criminal offense by overcoming his or her free will through the use of psychological or physical violence.

The least serious grade of a specific crime—the grades being classified by the law according to the circumstances under which the crime is committed—for which the least punishment specified by statute will be imposed.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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* Insurance Fraud in the Third Degree, a class D felony, one count
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The authors nonetheless note well that it is a grace-inspired love of God that keeps the third degree free from being tainted by an unhealthy masochism (xlii).
Indian colleague Arulnathan Sandiyagupillai Annapan, aged 39, was said to be "critical" in Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) yesterday, with third degree burns to most of his body.
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Often he uses the false transparency of language in sentences with double meanings, playing on an "ambiguous third degree, equidistant from the first and second," at once accepting outward appearances and unveiling the springs and mechanisms that underlie them.
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