Sentence examples for courts to zero from inspiring English sources

It does not contain a preset list of jurisdictions, and it is forward-looking: instead of relying primarily on historical evidence of discrimination, it allows individual voters or the government to ask courts to zero in on any jurisdiction, like Texas, that continues to try to impose racially discriminatory voting laws.

He pleaded guilty in civilian courts to two murders and five rapes and was sentenced to three consecutive and five concurrent life terms.

In 2013, he was sentenced in a Manhattan court to twenty-five years.

Alabama limits such petitions filed in state court to two years.

It would surprise no one if President Obama tried to increase the number of women on the court to three.

George Campbell, 45, and Paul A. Wilson, 38, both pleaded guilty in court to one count of mischief under Canadian criminal law.

He pleaded not guilty Wednesday in United States District Court to three counts of possession of oxycodone with intent to distribute.

In Cuba, Mr. Riera was sentenced by a military court to six years in prison for illegally leaving Cuba.

A literary editor sentenced by a Chinese court to five years in prison gave a defiant handwritten appeal to the court on Wednesday.

Last year, Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty in federal court to eight felonies, including tax fraud and lying to White House officials, and he is serving a four-year prison term.

He did it again with his second nominee, Elena Kagan, raising the number of women on the nation's highest court to three.