Sentence examples for lenient penalties from inspiring English sources

Others said that agencies instead would favor lenient penalties that do not require judicial review.

DECEMBER 1999 -- The committee hands down relatively lenient penalties against the doctors.

Both of those sentences were overturned after prosecutors protested the lenient penalties and appealed the decisions.

"We need to focus on the people who are shooting people," Mr. Williams said of the newly lenient penalties for marijuana.

These lenient penalties save thousands of young people from being branded with criminal records, and spare taxpayers the expense of arresting, trying and jailing them.

As early as the Sui dynasty (581 618 ce), codified Chinese law provided for more lenient penalties for those who confessed truthfully and voluntarily.

His lenient penalty highlights the benefits of cooperating.

Prosecutors had requested a relatively lenient penalty because Mr. Siekaczek cooperated extensively with the investigation, they said on Friday, the final day of the trial.

Outraged at what they viewed a lenient penalty, some residents, including the president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, accused the authorities of letting Ms. Potter off the hook to keep her client list secret.

Winter told the court that the relatively lenient penalty handed to Blockley, whose runners were at the centre of the alleged conspiracy to make money by laying losers on Betfair, was further evidence of bias against McKeown.

Established in legal practice in the 19th century, rehabilitation was viewed as a humane alternative to retribution and deterrence, though it did not necessarily result in an offender receiving a more lenient penalty than he would have received under a retributive or deterrent philosophy.