Sentence examples for imposing sentences from inspiring English sources

The House passed legislation imposing sentences of up to 30 years for fraud related to disaster relief.

The court sentenced 14 other men for lesser crimes, including forgery and handling stolen goods, imposing sentences from two to five years.

This was unfair - the lord chief justice made clear that I had "not sought to instruct judges to stop imposing sentences of imprisonment".

In 1876, the state began imposing sentences defined as a range, with convicts becoming eligible for parole after serving the minimum; those who were released reported monthly to citizen volunteers known as guardians, forerunners of today's parole officers.

Judges are tasked with imposing sentences that take into account all circumstances of a defendant's offense and history to find a sentence sufficient but not greater than necessary to achieve the goals of sentencing.

Margaret Colgate Love, a former Justice Department official who oversaw pardon applications, said the decisions were a part of a movement by judges who are sick of imposing sentences they view as too harsh.

Judge Marrero took the unusual step of reading aloud a 32-page statement before imposing sentence.

The jury didn't buy it, and neither did the court in imposing sentence upon him today".

Should judges be affirmatively required to address the elephant-in-the-room when imposing sentence?

You are a judge - you see yourself as sober, clear-eyed and unbiased - on the verge of imposing sentence in a date rape case somewhere in America.

The judge, Leonard B. Sand, is scheduled to impose sentences on the four men on Oct. 18.