Radomski's sentencing was postponed twice to allow him to continue to cooperate with the government and to allow prosecutors to evaluate information that could affect sentencing calculations.
Prosecutors charged four young men with hate crimes, a distinction that can affect sentencing, for selecting their robbery target by sexual orientation.
Advocates for reform say that changes that affect sentences for offenders, such as the Fair Sentencing Act, which was passed by Congress in 2010 to address racial disparities in the sentencing laws on cocaine, should be applied retroactively.
The decision may also affect sentencing laws in at least seven states in addition to Washington and the federal system, said Kevin R. Reitz, an expert on sentencing at the University of Colorado.
For example, it could affect sentences imposed under the Federal Death Penalty Act, under which the "aggravating circumstances" that make a defendant eligible for the death penalty are not charged in the indictment.
Prosecutors attached the hate crime distinction, which can affect sentencing, on the theory that Mr. Sandy was chosen by his assailants because they believed a gay man would be too weak or unwilling to put up a fight.
Each experiment manipulated noun phrases (NPs) in the subject positions of object-extracted relative clauses in order to determine how different types of NPs affected sentence complexity.
Technological advances began affecting sentence spacing methods.
Our results suggest that the incompatibility of the motor process affects sentence comprehension in a semantic way.
Only participants with dysarthria showed impairments in language, affecting sentence formulation and semantic association.
