Despite the murders, Mr. Roberts's maternal grandmother, Sylvia Fidler, has petitioned tirelessly to gain leniency for him.
[Staten Island Advance] "Courtesy cards" meant to indicate friends and family members of police officers were often sold to people who have no such connection to the police but hope to gain leniency at traffic stops.
"Knowing what I know at this point," he said, he would have avoided acts like associating with Wedtech officials, insisting that to gain leniency for themselves, they lied about him.
Felonies committed under the influence of drugs can gain leniency in Peruvian courts.
(Increasingly, corporations conduct internal investigations of their own conduct to gain leniency from the government by disclosing their own wrongdoing and, critics say, to sometimes deflect attention and protect senior corporate executives by laying blame on subordinates).
After settling a tax evasion case in 2009, the bank was eager to cooperate with authorities and gain leniency in the Libor case.
Playing the West off against Russia has stood Mr Lukashenko in good stead for most of his 17 years in power.Belarusian analysts note that the security apparatus has grown more influential in Belarus since 2010, and has little to gain from leniency.
A tiny minority has gained from massive tax cuts and legislative leniency about where they shove their money.
Mr. Vilar's lawyer, Jonathan Marks, asked the judge for leniency and said that about $40 million could be gained by liquidating his clients' assets, enough to repay the people he had swindled.
The researchers suggested that the leniency of the recent graduates might be attributable to insight gained during clinical experience into the level of knowledge actually required in clinical practice and to their awareness of how much they had learned during the clerkships.
