Sentence examples for defendants to avoid from inspiring English sources

It won't be easy to change the mind-set at the S.E.C. from one that regularly allows defendants to avoid culpability.

In that ruling, the court struck down as unconstitutional a provision of the state's death penalty law that permitted defendants to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty.

Mr. Pérez Mojica, 25, said he had agreed to testify against the two defendants to avoid life in prison, the harshest penalty under Puerto Rican law.

The company agreed to supply witnesses and evidence against the founder, Gary Stephen Kaplan, and other defendants to avoid further prosecution, Ms. Hanaway said.

They say that if the court does not reconsider, it could set a precedent that allows defendants to avoid responsibility for their actions by destroying evidence and bribing witnesses.

Contingent upon the defendants' compliance with court-ordered services and programs, the charges may be dismissed or reduced, enabling the defendants to avoid a criminal record with damaging repercussions for housing, employment, college financial aid, government benefits and immigration status.

The fact that we are prepared to say that the defendant could have avoided a given loss more easily than one category of plaintiff says very little about the relative ability of the same defendant to avoid the same loss when compared to a totally different and perhaps unforeseeable category of plaintiff...

Turner could have faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison, and in order to allow the defendant to avoid prison time altogether, the judge had to determine that this was an "unusual case where the interests of justice would best be served" by a lenient sentence.

It is common for a state underage drinking charge to be downgraded to a municipal ordinance violation in order for the defendant to avoid a criminal record and a suspended license.

Defendants, anxious to avoid lengthy litigation and negative publicity, often feel obliged to settle, irrespective of the merits of the claim.

Employing aggressive tactics, threatening to crush his opponents, his office extracted vast civil settlements from defendants eager to avoid criminal indictment.