An immediate jail term is a terrible outcome for him.
Judge William Kennedy told the remaining pair they faced "significant and immediate" jail when they are all sentenced on 28 April.
A third, or 3,707, of the 12,125 offenders convicted of possessing a knife in 2014 were given an immediate jail sentence.
Early next year, the government plans to introduce a more thorough overhaul of the tax system, introducing immediate jail sentences for large-scale tax evaders rather than the suspended terms currently given.
Had he been no more than a rich drug user, he would have received an immediate jail term, but the judge said he took into account Rausing's mental state at the time and his continuing need for treatment.
Stewart had been mulling the immediate jail option for a while, discussing it on national television in July with Larry King.
The challenge he faces over the state of prisons is more immediate, with jails in England and Wales holding a near-record 85,743 inmates and with increasing levels of suicide, self-harm, attacks on staff and sexual assaults.
More than 200 Syrian intellectuals called for the immediate release from jail of the country's best-known opposition leader, Riad Turk.
Why has the State Department not joined Europe's diplomats in publicly demanding her immediate release from jail?
"The ex-mayor's December 7 conviction and almost immediate release from jail on bail pending appeal generated a media frenzy and intense speculation over President Karzai's role in Sahebi's release," the cable says.
