He has also been receiving help from a number of psychologists, one of whom, Deidre Anderson, has been pleading a case for leniency and understanding of the nature of the task she has, very much a work in progress that would not gain from interruption.
The game's governing body is expected to confirm that extraordinary, extenuating circumstances persuaded them of the case for leniency after it emerged that the Hull City midfielder had taken the drug while suffering from severe depression prompted by the death of his new-born baby in May 2014.
TOKYO — Germany held firm on Friday in insisting it was too soon to say that Greece deserved more time to meet its budget-cutting goals, even as the head of the International Monetary Fund laid out the case for leniency.
Mr. Dozier said his young colleague had performed capably in presenting the case for leniency.
But the case for leniency is compelling.
The sentence was condemned by critics as a case of privilege being rewarded with leniency.
Some people are genuinely unaware of the C.T.R. requirement, and their cases might be ripe for an exercise of leniency.
[C1.] I.R.S. Offers Leniency in Questionable Tax Shelter Cases The Internal Revenue Service is making an unusual offer of leniency to firms that made and sold questionable tax shelters: come forward, pay penalties and turn over information and you may avoid criminal prosecution.
In legal parlance, she was a "coöperator," one of thousands of people who, each year, help the police build cases against others, often in exchange for a promise of leniency in the criminal-justice system.
MOSCOW — A Russian court reduced the prison sentence for a business partner of the oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky on Wednesday, a rare show of leniency amid a spate of criminal cases against opposition leaders.
