Sentence examples for harsh prosecution from inspiring English sources

Asked how the Bundys would turn the government's harsh prosecution of them into a victory, Ryan hesitated.

With a much more opinionated view, Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been coordinating litigation on behalf of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, ardently supported harsh prosecution of the Bush administration.

The harsh prosecution at Postville is an odd and cruel shift for the Bush administration, which for years had voiced compassion for exploited workers and insisted that immigration had to be fixed comprehensively or not at all.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced a reversal of Obama Administration policy — and a good deal of bipartisan consensus — by calling for a return to harsh prosecution and mandatory-minimum sentencing for drug crimes.

But critics say that Persky, a former Stanford athlete himself, bent over backwards to make an exception in the Turner case, and that if he wanted to give Ramirez the same favorable treatment, the judge could have utilized his discretion and recommended a less harsh prosecution.

Alvarez handily won her previous re-election bids, but her pattern of harsh prosecution of youth offenders -- which made Cook County among the leaders for juvenile life without parole sentences -- and low rate of prosecuting police misconduct eventually drew the ire of those hoping for progressive reform. .

The J20 demonstrators are not the only progressive activists who have faced harsh prosecutions for protest activities this year.

Several ballot initiatives promote decriminalization as a criminal justice reform – a way to limit lopsided enforcement of drug laws against minorities and cut down on unduly harsh prosecutions, advocates say.

Hard-nosed district attorneys in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas faced similar fates after tenures ― sometimes decades long ― of harsh prosecutions. .

Gang members in Los Angeles also face harsher prosecution; misdemeanors can be charged as felonies, and sentences can be lengthened by as much as 10 years for some crimes.

Robert Mazur ("How to Halt the Terrorist Money Train," Op-Ed, Jan . 3 prescribes harsher prosecution of money-laundering bankers as the cure for the plague of the international drug trade.