Sentence examples for down lenient from inspiring English sources

Public anger should be directed towards the perpetrators of the crime, and towards rape apologist judges who hand down lenient sentences.

The reaction softened a bit when, without objection from the Crown prosecutor, the judge handed down lenient sentences; the most severe, for the arsonists, included a form of house arrest.

Handing down "lenient" sentences last week at Nottingham crown court, a judge said the intended protest would have been peaceful and safe, and recognised the activists were "decent" people with "the highest possible motives".

They urged Judge Jed. S. Rakoff to hand down a lenient sentence.

DECEMBER 1999 -- The committee hands down relatively lenient penalties against the doctors.

Mr. Liu's lawyer entered a guilty plea and asked the court to hand down a lenient sentence.

The defense team asked Colonel Lind to hand down a lenient sentence that would allow Private Manning to redeem himself as a productive member of society.

Judges and magistrates are institutionally racist, consistently handing down more lenient sentences to white criminals, an official Government study has revealed.

Interestingly, Israeli judges who presided over the trials of some accused kapos in the early years of the State of Israel handed down relatively lenient sentences.

California's new law would prevent judges from handing down similarly lenient sentences by extending automatic denial of probation to individuals who commit any penetrative sexual assault, not just those committed by force.

Even if Preska had been sympathetic to Hammond or to his cause, it would have been difficult for her to hand down a particularly lenient sentence.