Sentence examples for accepted guilty from inspiring English sources

In three others, the prosecutors accepted guilty pleas, letting the accused elude death row and instead receive sentences of life imprisonment with no chance for parole.

After Hayne agreed to testify, Wright, Baxter and Stevens accepted guilty pleas 5 September, gambling that Dowd would reduce their sentences based on mitigating factors.

And that cooperation — two of his co-defendants accepted guilty pleas — led United States District Judge Carol B. Amon to deliver a lighter sentence than the 27 to 33 months the guidelines suggested.

It ultimately accepted guilty pleas from two foreign subsidiaries and agreed not to prosecute the parent company -- but the Chamber argues that Alliance One shouldn't have been charged in the first place.

He said he accepted the decision of past governments to accept guilty verdicts on Japanese war criminals convicted in a postwar tribunal.

Human rights groups monitoring the proceedings said the judge's uncertainty about the procedures for accepting guilty pleas in a death-penalty case here illustrated the difficulties of using a new legal system to prosecute terrorism suspects.

Victims are likely to want as many charges as possible to be brought; prosecutors must limit an indictment to make trials manageable and may sometimes accept guilty pleas to lesser charges to avoid the expense and risk of a contested hearing.

But yesterday, Judge Deborah A. Batts accepted his guilty plea in Federal District Court.

Judge Marcia P. Hirsch accepted his guilty plea on two charges of attempted criminal mischief, one a felony, one a misdemeanor.

Clearly, Lindh's attorneys also thought there were risks, since they accepted a guilty plea and a twenty-year sentence.

And yesterday, when Judge Stephen L. Braslow accepted his guilty plea, Mr. Spota did not recommend the lesser sentence.