 Angie Harmons character is telling the defendant, Professor James  Henri Rousseau, that he will be serving not one but three class A  felonies, equaling three years of jail time. However, under NYS law,  three class A felonies would earn a defendant three needles. What  Harmon meant was that Rousseau would be serving three class A  misdemeanors, which carry a maximum sentence of a year each.