Sentence examples for changing the sentencing from inspiring English sources

TB My thoughts are: (i) Possibly on the Martin case, asking a senior judge to look at changing the sentencing law, ie to allow lesser sentences than life.

Elderbroom said Mississippi may still have other low-hanging options to further reduce its prison population, but future cuts will likely require changing the sentencing policies for violent offenders, which can be politically difficult.

Cut 50 is mainly focused on preventing offenders from being sentenced to prison by sending them to drug courts, veterans courts, and other diversionary programs, and on changing the sentencing laws for nonviolent offenders, she said.

"Dramatically changing the sentencing laws — by permitting early parole for some offenders, contrary to the detailed sentencing scheme currently in effect — is not reasonably germane to changing the treatment of juvenile and youthful offenders in the criminal justice system," he wrote.

Advocates of reform were brightened by the introduction of a similar bill in the House Judiciary Committee by its chairman, Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va)., who, like his Senate counterpart, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), has been extremely cautious about changing the sentencing laws.

But the question is: In changing the sentence's syntax, are we also changing its logic, its "mystical" deeper meaning?

In addition, the lawyer told Human Rights Watch that the high military court had exceeded its authority in Mr. Ismail's case by changing the sentence of life in prison that a lower court had given him.

In 1784 a pair of women were arrested for stealing fans worth 15 shillings, meaning a conviction would result in the death penalty; Garrow convinced the jury to convict the women of stealing 4 shillings worth of fans, therefore changing the sentence to twelve months of hard labour.

To set off material that can be deleted without changing the sentence's meaning: "I was born in 1958, a very good year".

It is intended to weed out sentences that end with a preposition that can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning ("Where are you going to?" as opposed to "Where are you going?").

The Department of Justice and the US Sentencing Commission, which was responsible for changing the drug sentencing law, told VICE News that they have no say in the fate of these immigrants.