Sentence examples for determining sentencing from inspiring English sources

Such estimates are critical in determining sentencing length.

"The right to adequate assistance of counsel cannot be defined or enforced without taking account of the central role plea bargaining takes in securing convictions and determining sentences".

(f) relates to factors to be taken into account in determining sentence.

From this we conclude that the capacity of auditory short-term memory is an important factor in determining sentence-level speech comprehension ability.

However, it is important to note that what may crucially underpin the carryover of improved verb retrieval to connected speech is the central role that verbs play in determining sentence structure, a role which nouns do not, of course, assume.

This is only to determine sentencing.

The court-martial would then go forward in two stages, one to establish guilt or innocence, and a second to determine sentencing.

Nearly 800 people are on death row in the nine states where judges ultimately determine sentences.

The decision, Apprendi v. New Jersey, No. 99-478, cast doubt on federal and state laws in which judges make the crucial findings that determine sentences.

"We're putting judges in the position to determine sentences based on the facts of a case, and not on mandatory minimum sentences," said Jeffrion L. Aubry, an assemblyman from Queens who has led the effort for repeal.

Those rights have been eroded by two major reforms by Congress beginning in the 1980s: the federal sentencing guidelines, which called for specific sentences for specific crimes; and mandatory minimum sentences, which give enormous power to prosecutors to determine sentences through the charges they bring.