Sentence examples for irrational sentence from inspiring English sources

In an extraordinary opinion, the federal trial judge said he had no choice but to impose that "cruel, unjust, and irrational" sentence.

Did anyone viewing Vittoria De Sica's The Bicycle Thief imagine that the desperate father in his 1948 masterpiece about postwar Rome would end up serving such an irrational sentence?

Judges who negotiate with defendants — and even worse, coerce them — could go the other way and start handing out unjustified, irrational sentences.

The judge has long been a leading critic of the guidelines, which he says lead to overly punitive and irrational sentences "My modest proposal is that they should be scrapped in their entirety and replaced with a non-arithmetic multi-factor test," Judge Rakoff said.

If the state is to get away from its irrational and complicated sentencing, it needs a commission, and it needs to insulate it as much as possible from the political actors who have contributed so much to the state's current crisis.

Surveys have repeatedly shown that Americans are fed up with what they see as an expensive and ineffective drug war, draconian sentencing laws and an irrational adherence to marijuana prohibition.

My drug addiction caused me to make these irrational decisions," Mr. Negron told the judge during his sentencing last year, according to an account in The Connecticut Post.

But these isolated gestures of mercy cannot begin to cure an inflexible and irrational system in which nonviolent drug offenders are being sentenced to terms longer than those imposed on rapists and other violent criminals.

Bacon develops this analysis to deal with sentences such as 'Every animal is either rational or irrational'.

Possessed of an irrational hatred of pretty much everything, Angry can find implied insult in any phrase or sentence.

Based upon what counsel perceives to be irrational delusions with respect to Defendant's status related to the current charges and revocation of the deferred sentence, she has been unable to rationally assist counsel in her defense of this case".