Although he faces up to 60 years in prison for those charges, Panamanian law allows older convicts to serve prison time at home.
Guatemalan law allows convicts to serve a maximum of 50 years, but the sentence assures that Mr. Pimentel, who is in his 50s, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The judges were told that could "drive a very big hole" through the international convention on the transfer of prisoners that allows convicts to serve their sentences in their home countries.
After she and the other participants were convicted on multiple counts for the sit-in, Stephens Due became a pioneer of the "jail-in": She and some of the others convicted opted to serve a 49-day jail sentence instead of paying a fine.
Why don't you expedite the appeal, to see whether you uphold the conviction, or you don't.' Now if they'd done that and they upheld the conviction, then the next stage, if he is seriously ill, which wouldn't have caused so much fuss, is you say OK, I'll transfer him as a convicted prisoner to serve his remaining days in Libya.
Many states do not allow convicted felons to serve as executors.
It is rare for high-profile Brazilian politicians convicted of crimes to serve time in prison.
How a punishment is received by the public will always be part of that punishment, since it defines the climate in which the convicted man has to serve it.
All of which leads me to my belief that even if Dominique Strauss-Kahn is convicted and has to serve time, he will someday return to France, publish his autobiography (which will, of course, be adapted for the big screen by Mr. Polanski) and eventually be made a government minister.
Mr. Sickler, the consultant, said that Mr. Taubman would probably receive a jail sentence, because federal guidelines generally require that a defendant who pleads not guilty before a jury in federal court and is subsequently convicted is required to serve time.
For example, Harold Shipman was a convicted murder sentenced to serve a life sentence.
