Sentence examples for lenient judge from inspiring English sources

After a lenient judge was assigned to the case, the Samandal editors were cautiously optimistic.

"The unduly harsh judge escapes concern while the lenient judge gets hit," said Douglas A. Berman, a professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio University, who closely follows sentencing law and policy.

Though a lenient judge sentenced him to a fine and community service, his reputation never recovered.

A statement the anonymous victim read aloud in court went viral after being posted on BuzzFeed, an online petition is calling for the lenient judge's removal, observers have called Turner's case a glaring example of white privilege, and Turner himself is still casting about for excuses, calling his crime a result of college "party culture".

This is being done, someone briefed on the plan said, to prevent applicants and their lawyers from trying to shop their appeals to the most lenient judges.

Peter Dutton's claim that Labor has stacked the Queensland judiciary with lenient judges ignores a history of "tough on crime" platforms and politicised appointments, according to the author of a new book on the state courts' most controversial saga.

* What Happened Wednesday: Rep. Mike Huffington began airing a new television commercial that criticizes incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein for supporting what he termed lenient judges.

We therefore focused on a lenient judging of the paper's best reported primary outcome, but even by these generous criteria the presentation of a median 3.5% (interquartile range 3 6.5%) of the data cannot be considered adequate.

When Prince et al. [ 14] asked anatomists, clinicians, beginning clerks and recent graduates to set a pass/fail standard for an anatomy test at the start of clinical training, the highest standard (failing 64%) was set by the students, but the recent graduates were by far the most lenient judges (failing only 26%), while clinicians and anatomists failed 58%and42%2%, respectively.

"I would be very wary of extrapolating from that, that this is a lenient sentencing judge.

Friday's 40-year sentence — the most lenient the judge could give him — apparently shook Spencer out of tough guy mode.