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The state has to bring you to trial with 120 days if you are accused of a felony and 30 days if you are accused of a misdemeanor and are still being held in custody. If you have bonded out, the State has 180 days to bring you to trial on a felony charge and 60 days to bring you to trial on a misdemeanor charge.

You may be responsible for repaying the entire amount of the check. While bank policies and state laws vary, you may have to pay the bank the entire amount of the fraudulent check that you cashed or deposited into your account. You may have to pay overdraft fees.

(6) N.S.F. check charges in an amount not to exceed the greater of five percent of the amount of the check or electronic payment, or twenty-five dollars, assessed if the payment is returned or otherwise dishonored.

(4) "Felony" is any crime for which an offender may be sentenced to death or imprisonment at hard labor. (5) "Foreseeable" refers to that which ordinarily would be anticipated by a human being of average reasonable intelligence and perception. (6) "Misdemeanor" is any crime other than a felony.

Issuing worthless check of $150 or more is classified as a third (3rd) degree felony and is punishable by five years jail term, up to five years of probation, and about $5,000 fine. Depending on certain factors, defaulters may be made to pay the fine of $5,000 and serve probation of up to five years.

(1) Whoever commits the crime of issuing worthless checks, when the amount of the check or checks is twenty-five thousand dollars or more, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, or may be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.