In Justice DiMango's court, prosecutors are presenting more lenient plea offers, according to interviews with senior court officials, judges and defense lawyers.
"If Colombia is going to offer lenient punishment for top guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes, it's perfectly predictable that the military will demand that exact same level of leniency, including for horrendous crimes like false positives," he said.
We might be more lenient if theatres offered a significant discount during the preview period.
He said those teammates were offered lenient punishment for their own doping — what he called "sweetheart deals" — in exchange for their information about him.
The Australians died before their final appeal was even heard by the constitutional court, and before an inquiry into claims that their trial judges offered lenient sentences in exchange for bribes.
It survives because of the revenue generated by this B2B business, because it is established within the market and because it offers lenient payment terms.
They called the expanding business NEMS (North End Music Stores), which offered lenient credit terms, and from which McCartney's father once bought a piano.
In other criminal cases, defendants were offered lenient plea deals so prosecutors would not be forced to reveal in court that Stingrays were used.
The Peace of Prague (1866) offered lenient terms to Austria, in which Austria's relationship with the new nation-state of Italy underwent major restructuring; although the Austrians were far more successful in the military field against Italian troops, the monarchy lost the important province of Venetia.
They offer relatively lenient repayment terms and interest rates that do little more than cover costs.
During the trial, Mr. Capone's efforts to avoid a strict sentence were thwarted by Judge James H. Wilkerson, who refused to offer a lenient sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.
