Despite this, the psychosocial impact on children is little known and rarely considered in sentencing, even though the evidence to date suggests that children whose parents are imprisoned are exposed to triple jeopardy through break-up of the family, financial hardship, stigma and secrecy, leading to adverse social and educational repercussions.
Consider, say, discourse about Babylonian gods, and consider in particular those sentences that imply or presuppose the existence of these gods (e.g., "Ishtar traveled to the underworld" but not "The Babylonians believed that Ishtar traveled to the underworld").
The code includes a sort of "catch-all clause" which states that the criteria listed "do not limit the matters that the court may consider in determining the sentence".
Because he wasn't prosecuted for anything beyond identity theft, Schiltz said those allegations weren't considered in his sentencing.
In 2002, the US Supreme Court returned the case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the Texas attorney general admitted that race had been improperly considered in his sentencing.
While the penalty phases in most death penalty trials involve extended presentations by expert witnesses, family members and others of aggravating and mitigating evidence for juries to consider, in Arizona, at least, sentencing proceedings before judges were brisk affairs that relied more on legal memorandums than testimony.
In addition, the prosecution presented the evidence of rape as the "aggravating factor" for the jury to consider in deciding whether to sentence Mr. House to death.
In that equation, they said, usually only past felony convictions are considered in felony sentences.
Furthermore, some knowledge is not considered in measuring sentence similarities, such as the semantic class, the thematic role and the relationship between syntactic and semantic levels through the semantic predicates.
