Until now, lawyers and academics say, international judges have been rather lenient in an effort to move the process along and keep defendants involved in the proceedings.
The ongoing lockdown is the opportunity for the government to show the public "it is taking the issue seriously," according to Marco, who said authorities have been too lenient in their efforts to stem radicalization "over the past 20 years" — a criticism that has also been voiced in France.
Mr. Antenen would not discuss the case, but several officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the information that prompted the investigation came from a narcotics trafficker who began cooperating with the F.B.I. in an effort to seek more lenient treatment in his own case.
That comment was an apparent jab at efforts by Justice Department officials to refocus prosecutors on seeking more lenient punishments for nonviolent drug offenders in an effort to deal with overcrowded prisons and to mete out punishment more fairly.
By Jeannie Suk Gersen June 17, 2016 Activists are right to protest the lenient sentence Aaron Persky gave Brock Turner, but efforts to recall judges can have complicated effects.
Although the drug debate often reduces to a series of confusing statistical duels over whether, say, American interdiction efforts or Holland's lenient pot laws are working, some facts are not in dispute.
But some see his cooperation, and the government's effort to secure a more lenient prison sentence for him, possibly even one that would release him into the witness protection program, in a very different light.
Because the average coverage depth is so high (82.72×), we opted for a lenient criteria for consensus identification in an effort to reduce false negative mutation calls by analyzing as many sites for putative mutations as possible.
And previous efforts to adopt a more lenient disciplinary code still leave much room for out-of-school punishment.
Those efforts are further thwarted by lenient regulations, as Congress supported the final version of a spending bill Nov. 17 that would allow tomato paste on pizzas to continue to be counted as a vegetable and blocks efforts to limit the use of potatoes in school cafeterias.
