The phrase "a sentencing recommendation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when discussing suggestions made by a judge or legal authority regarding the appropriate punishment for a convicted individual.
Example: "The judge considered the prosecutor's a sentencing recommendation before making a final decision on the case."
Alternatives: "a sentencing suggestion" or "a penalty recommendation."
Mr. Seabrook's lawyers have not yet filed a sentencing recommendation.
In a sentencing recommendation filed in the Federal District Court in Houston, prosecutors asked Judge David Hittner for 230 years in prison, the maximum permitted by federal law for the convictions.
Mueller has asked for several postponements in making a sentencing recommendation since Flynn pleaded guilty to a single felony count of making false statements to the FBI last December, a full year ago.
The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Paul Shechtman, said he would file a sentencing recommendation with the court, but he declined to say whether he would urge a prison term.
Mr. David was offered a sentencing recommendation of a year in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to the criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, a B-level felony that carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
"His early cooperation was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with long-term and firsthand insight" into the subject of Mr. Mueller's investigation — Russia's election interference and whether any Trump associates conspired, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing recommendation memorandum and an addendum that was heavily blacked out.
In criminal prosecutions, defendants frequently plead guilty to reduced charges along with a favorable sentencing recommendation in exchange for cooperating against others.
A picture on Wednesday with an article about prosecutors' sentencing recommendation for Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading, carried an erroneous credit.
After concluding Kocoras had met the procedural requirements, the appeals judges were left to decide whether the sentence was substantively reasonable, which is where prosecutors' own sentencing recommendation of at least a year and a day---rather than the full guidelines term--came into play.
Umm, not that you folks in the robes are asking for my sentencing recommendation, but, just a thought: Erramilli clearly isn't getting the whole probation thing.
"The police officers who had arrested him spoke highly of him to the DA," she said, while the judge rejected the district attorney's sentencing recommendation and viewed Robinson as "a good young man who made a mistake", his mother said.
