If you start getting lenient with them, they are not going to move their cars, and we are not going to make any headway".
They argued that prosecutors took documents out of context and that cooperating witnesses lied about their clients' role in the scheme in the hope of getting lenient sentences.
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Sergeant Gibbs's lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, tried to convince the panel that most of the soldiers who accused his client were doing so to get more lenient sentences, and that accounts from the soldiers differed.
Franceso Colorado Cessa, his son Francisco Jr., and a business associate, Ramon Segura Flores, are accused of conspiring to offer a $1.2 million bribe to Judge Sam Sparks in an attempt to get a lenient sentence for the elder Mr. Colorado Cessa in the money laundering case.
According to Transport & Environment, an environmental group, those concessions mean that very heavy cars like SUVs get more lenient emission targets than cars that might carry the same number of passengers but are far less polluting, like family cars.
Rizk said that Dar al-Tanweer did bring copies to the Abu Dhabi international book fair, which opens on Thursday, saying that "the fairs always get more lenient procedures".
"If you look at these trials, the defendants all admit their guilt quietly; they don't claim to offer important revelations about other networks and supporters; and they get very lenient sentences," he said.
Critics of the lower court's decision also said that double standards had been applied in Ms. Wu's case: well-connected defendants convicted of financial fraud appeared to get more lenient sentences, they said, than did Ms. Wu, a self-made tycoon who quit school as a teenager.
