Sentence examples for illegal sentence from inspiring English sources

"This is an absolutely illegal sentence," he said.

Some years thereafter, petitioner filed a 'Motion to Vacate or Correct Illegal Sentence.' The District Court, treating it as a proceeding under Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, denied relief without conducting a hearing.

"As far as I know, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky is in a position — and Platon Lebedev is in this position as well — to achieve the annulment of this illegal sentence".

16, 18, 59 L.Ed. 129, as to the jurisdiction of a District Court to correct an illegal sentence after the expiration of the term at which it was entered.' Heflin v. United States, 358 U.S. at 422, 79 S.Ct. at 455 (concurring opinion).

Rather, we think the proper remedy is to remand the case to the district court with direction to enter an order instruction the Attorney General to credit the defendant with the period of time elapsing between the return of the indictment and the date of the arraignment Fed.R.Crim.P. 35 provides that the district court may correct an illegal sentence at any time.

In Heflin we were nt concerned with the correctness of jury instructions, since that case arose out of a collateral proceeding to correct an illegal sentence where the petitioner was asking only that the cumulative punishment imposed for receiving be set aside.

Thus began an all-out attack against Judge Rosenbaum in which he is accused of "misstating" facts and meting out "illegal" sentences.

These were people serving illegal sentences, and the government was insisting on persnickety barriers to relief.

In addition to the illegal sentences, Boeckmann has used his judicial status to form relationships, personal and sexual, with male litigants".

The individuals represented are exposed to the same demographic and criminal justice risk factors for re-incarceration (<25 years of age, male, Indigenous, prior adult and juvenile incarceration, income from illegal activities, sentence <6 months, drug-related sentence).

Rule 35 applies to any 'illegal sentence,' not to any illegal conviction, and thus by its terms the Rule protects only those rights which a defendant retains even if the judgment of guilt against him is proper.