"We are pleased that the European court has upheld the whole life tariff as a legitimate sentence in British courts".
The result of the alterations to the DNA damage response is that Fhit-deficient cells escape their legitimate death sentence, with some of them carrying unrepaired or misrepaired DNA lesions that will contribute to further clonal expansion, as shown by the transformation and increased HPRT mutations exhibited by the UVC-surviving colonies.
He also believed that rehabilitation, along with punishment, deterrence and healing victims, was a legitimate goal of sentencing.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, writing in dissent, said the result of this empty standard "is covertly to legitimate convictions and sentences obtained on the basis of incompetent conduct by defense counsel".
But if it rules that whole-life sentences are legitimate, the prisons of England and Wales might become that little bit more unstable.
But for an increasing number of Republicans, that one word — "legitimate" — in that one sentence, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," was too much to bear.
Notice how much lazy presumption is tucked into the sentence: "solely because," "legitimate outlet" and "urges they could not control".
Judge Cardamone wrote that because the panel found that the agreement was a "no misconduct" bargain, the sentence violated the plea bargain; and the appeals court did not have to consider whether the arrest itself was a legitimate basis for imposing the sentence.
And the judges said the time to consider whether a prisoner's life sentence breached article 3 (because his "continued incarceration no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose") was the time at which he was seeking to be released.
On one traditional gloss, a sentence is logically necessary if it would remain true given any uniform and grammatically legitimate reinterpretation of the non-logical expressions of that sentence.
