Under Austrian law, sentences are served concurrently and not consecutively.
Under New Jersey law, sentences of less than a year are served in county jails, rather than state prisons.
He was convicted under an early federal computer crime law, sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and perform community service.
Concluding that only Piz could have concocted such a vile prank, Logan laid down the law, sentencing Veronica's boyfriend to major beatdown.
In May, a federal judge, acknowledging that the case was Dickensian but saying that he had no leeway under the law, sentenced Young to serve a minimum of 15 years in federal prison.
For Roberts, the truth of 'is a law' sentences is always relative to a contextually salient theory.
For example, in the covering law model, the theory component (law sentences) is the core of an explanans (Hempel and Oppenheim 1948; Hempel 1965).
Legislators, officials and advocates are now, quite rightly, looking at drug law sentencing reforms that consign the war on drugs to history.
A dispositional sentence such as 'Jones believes the earth is round' is unlike a law-sentence insofar as it mentions an individual, Jones.
Its "truth-maker", to use a contemporary expression, has to be understood in terms of what would satisfy it as opposed to what it purportedly describes.[14] What would satisfy a law is not specified or mentioned in the law-sentence; similarly, what would satisfy a disposition is not specified or mentioned in the disposition-sentence. Nor could it be.
