In addition to customs officials, the sentences today involved local politicians, policemen, the heads of several government bank branches and a few businessmen who used to work for the Yuanhua Corporation.
The manuscript had been brought into the United States by a Judaica book dealer, Aaron Stefansky, who pleaded guilty last March to failing to declare the item to customs and was sentenced to a year's probation and a $3,000 fine, the agency said.
Using this custom-built dictionary, sentences for smoking history mention were identified and were further classified into three classes, namely, "current," "past," and "never".
Tradition, or rather a gang of quarrelsome old men, some with guns, demands that the relatives of the accused suffer in turn, a custom that becomes a prison sentence when Mark's family members are forcibly confined to their house, possibly for years.
The lawyers' bible, Blackstone's Criminal Practice, points out modern custom is to grant pardons after conviction and sentence when it becomes tolerably plain the convicted person was innocent.
A judge in northern Bawku has sentenced a 70-year-old woman to five years in prison for violating a ban against the traditional practice of cutting the genitals of young girls, saying the sentence should deter an "outmoded custom".
As appears to be the custom, I like to end on a single sentence of personal information.
Kwachu petitions Cameroonian parliamentarians for support of anti-discrimination legislation that proposes a 10-year prison sentence for those caught practicing the custom.
A man who called himself a financier and who was known for his love of opera and custom-made suits was sentenced yesterday to 9 to 18 years in prison for grand larceny and securities fraud, the Manhattan district attorney's office announced.
Judge Mukasey, visibly irritated, said that it was not his custom to deliver lectures when he handed out sentences, but in light of Sister Ping's "lengthy exercise in self-justification" he would make an exception.
