DECEMBER 1999 -- The committee hands down relatively lenient penalties against the doctors.
As was made abundantly clear in the Stanford case, Brock's status as a student athlete was grounds for an insultingly lenient sentence against felony charges by unanimous verdict.
To guard against lenient significance thresholds, a genome-wide significance level was estimated, based on a Bonferroni correction for the number of independent (i.e., uncorrelated) common variants across the genome: 5×10−8 [Dudbridge and Gusnanto, 2008; Gao et al., 2008; Pe'er et al., 2008].
The country has agreed a date next week for the brothers' appeal against the lenient 2011 sentence.
The prosecutor had asked for the relatively lenient six-month sentence against Frigo because he reportedly collaborated with investigators.
In November, while the UK government played host to a bunch of top officials from the odious Saudi regime, a young Saudi rape victim was being sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for riding in a car with a man who was not a relative and for having the audacity to appeal against the lenient sentences given to her rapists.
For example, in 1992, when Cheryl Hopwood filed a law suit against the University of Texas Law School, it was using a two-track admissions policy in which applications from African-Americans and Hispanics were evaluated separately – and against more lenient standards – from other applications.
Who can stomach a guy who is so lenient on violent acts against women?
Gonojagoron Mancha, a Tahrir Square-style youth protest movement, rejected the ruling against Azam as too lenient.
White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white children.
