Sentence examples for Impose sentence from inspiring English sources
He asked the judge to decline to impose sentence and to dismiss the indictment.
A13 Young Killer to Learn Sentence A Florida judge said he would impose sentence today on Nathaniel Brazill, 14, who faces 25 years to life for murdering his teacher.
While waiting for my judge to impose sentence, I prayed.
The judge, Leonard B. Sand, is scheduled to impose sentences on the four men on Oct. 18.
Summary tribunals would be held inside stadiums, with judges empowered to impose sentences on the spot.
And we impose sentences that have been, by and large, negotiated in advance without our involvement".
For decades, judges had unquestioned power to impose sentences using their own discretion with little fear of appeal.
A draft anti-terrorism law threatens to impose sentences of death and life imprisonment for a sweeping array of infractions.
A couple of weeks ago, for instance, a judge in Massachusetts said he found it "unendurable" to have to impose sentences that are "both unjust and racist".
Saudi judges have extensive scope to impose sentences according to their own interpretation of Sharia law without reference to any previous cases.
"Why would Congress want district courts to continue to impose sentences that were universally viewed as unfair and racially discriminatory?" the lawyer, Stephen E. Eberhardt, asked.
