Sentence examples for initial sentence for from inspiring English sources

Just as his initial sentence, for a conviction on trumped-up charges of fraud and tax evasion, is coming to an end, he faces new charges and the prospect of fourteen more years in prison.

In recent months, the Obama administration has portrayed the country's tough drug policies as unjust and pledged to seek early release or lighter initial sentences for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders.

Couch and her son, Ethan, drew worldwide attention last winter after fleeing the United States in an attempt to avoid his punishment for violating his initial sentence of probation.

His initial sentence of death was commuted to life in prison, not for drug trafficking but for treason.

The court reduced his initial sentence of 33 months in jail to 12 months, suspended for three years.

The appeals court reduced his initial sentence of 33 months in jail to 12 months, suspended for three years.

Most Egyptians have lived under the rule of Hosni Mubarak all their lives, and as the initial sentencing of life in prison for the toppled dictator and his interior minister Habib el-Adly filtered through to the crowds outside, a wave of euphoria erupted in front of thousands of watching security troops, sending fireworks spinning into the sky.

The headline misstated his initial sentence.

Particular examples are: a) The initial sentence is too broad.

"And in Malaysia it carries a heavy penalty" – both a prison sentence (Anwar's initial conviction for sodomy was later quashed) and, even before any verdict, the suspicion of the rural and religious Malays that he had been up to something "abhorrent and unnatural".

"The initial sentencing was over the top," said C. Bradley Patton, a lawyer for Esteban Núñez.