Beyond sentencing, some local governments are making efforts to further repair damage from criminalization by enacting "equity programs" that allow for victims of the war on drugs to have application priority during the marijuana business licensing process.
By that time, Mr. Johnson had served more than two years beyond his sentence for the drug offense alone.
There were days when I couldn't move beyond a sentence, and then other days when I could write a whole page.
In sixth grade, she was caught stealing a roll of film from a supermarket and was sentenced to tutor younger children at the Y.M.C.A. Now 23 and a college graduate, Ms. Lakowitz said she started socializing with the young people she met there, and extended her tutoring a year beyond her sentence.
For them the 'third' stratum was conceived as discourse, reflecting their concern with bible translation and the need to describe text relations beyond the sentence.
So I was analysing cohesion in texts from 1968, at a time when discourse analysis in linguistics was still in its infancy; and while I loved grammar, analysis of textual relations beyond the sentence became my chief concern.
DRT was one of the first semantic theories to go beyond the sentence boundary, and take into account how the interpretation of an expression may depend on the preceding discourse.
Still leery of what lurks beyond every sentence.
In 2004, Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Blakeley v Washington, which struck down Washington's sentencing scheme for empowering judges to give defendants custodial terms stretching beyond the sentence associated with the jury's finding.
It would, and it would be a huge setback for Cooley, because it would leave the DA with only two options - drop the case altogether, or get busy preparing for a trial - neither of which would expose Polanski to any punishment beyond the sentence he might now receive as a result of his guilty plea.
