The Colorado attorney general has asked the State Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling this week that would allow a large group of sex offenders now in prison or on parole to be released because of conflicting state sentencing laws.
Seth Mnookin's piece on Bloomberg News, in this month's Vanity Fair, quotes from the company's stylebook, "The Bloomberg Way," saying that Bloomberg banned the word "but" from its stories because it required readers "to deal with conflicting ideas in the same sentence".
By James Surowiecki November 17, 2008 Seth Mnookin's piece on Bloomberg News, in this month's Vanity Fair, quotes from the company's stylebook, "The Bloomberg Way," saying that Bloomberg banned the word "but" from its stories because it required readers "to deal with conflicting ideas in the same sentence".
DLF observes that the current debate around the prison system is out of balance – with calls for tougher sentencing of criminals conflicting with the prison system's obligation to rehabilitate prisoners.
The use of conflicting laws has spawned uncertainty and sentencing disparities, with the state tribunal consistently imposing harsher punishments for war crimes.
The problem of how to prioritize among conflicting norms is similar to the selection of sentences for removal in belief contraction (Hansson and Makinson 1997).
Richard responds to this problem in his 1995 by claiming that when there are conflicting restrictions operative in a context, a relevant sentence is true in the context just in case it is true on every resolution of the conflict.
He was arrested on charges of defaming Colonel Qaddafi and inciting domestic conflicts, and sentenced to seven years in prison.
"The justice system, despite the investment in the Criminal Cases Review Commission, still refuses to accept that there are prisoners who are innocent of the crimes they have been convicted of and this comes into conflict with sentence reviews.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, former vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and former leader of one of the country's most powerful militias during its last major conflict, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison by the International Criminal Court.
