"higher sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a sentence which is more complex, more significant, or more important than another sentence in a passage of text. For example: "Though the first sentence in the passage provided a good overview of the topic, it was the higher sentence, containing an example and further details, that made the argument more convincing."
The draft guideline set out an ascending range of quantities of drug, each of which carried a higher sentence.
They chose not to use violence and did not take weapons, knowing that would attract a much higher sentence.
If an individual had committed this many violations, a sentencing judge would probably "throw the book" at the person by imposing a higher sentence for any subsequent violations.
The higher sentence, the judge said, was because he found that Mr. Skilling had lied to the Securities and Exchange Commission about the real reasons for his sales of Enron stock before the company's collapse in December 2001.
Even if the higher sentence imposed after Rice's trial de novo was vulnerable under Pearce, Rice was entitled neither to have his conviction erased nor to avoid the collateral consequences flowing from that conviction and a proper sentence.' Ibid.
But the judge, Kimba M. Wood, told Mr. Todaro before she sentenced him that only his son's needs and his own poor health kept her from giving him a "much, much higher" sentence.
The Justice Department is not explicitly recommending that sentences be lowered; in fact, the new financial regulatory law suggests higher sentences in some areas.
It's easier to demand higher sentences – a rally about violence against women last month in Melbourne heard calls for a return of the death penalty.
It also backfires, producing higher sentences for those convicted after pleading not guilty in a crown court trial than they would have received from magistrates.
Indeed, prosecutors are also instructed not to shy away from using a range of legislation that carries higher sentences where it is merited.
"Young black men are disproportionately represented through stop-and-search, arrests, charging, higher sentencing – discriminatory treatment throughout the whole system," says Cole.
