Sentence examples for lenient sentences from inspiring English sources

He said the specialist and others were blaming his client to receive more lenient sentences.

Juries are seemingly wary of employees who testify against bosses in return for more lenient sentences.

The 14 defendants received more lenient sentences than the prosecutor had originally demanded.

Also low-income African-Americans often cannot afford lawyers to win them more lenient sentences.

The scheme of appealing unduly lenient sentences was working well, he said.

This combination of torturous investigatory practices and lenient sentences, often accompanied by victim restitution, continued into the 20th century.

Sentencing guidelines for judges in India are nonexistent, which could lead to lenient sentences in rape cases, critics say.

Sentencing guidelines that allow or require judges to impose more lenient sentences based on mitigating factors are apparently unaffected.

Why, she asks, was a writer like Brasillach condemned to die, while other figures who behaveds worse received lenient sentences?

These were in response to the supposedly lenient sentences handed out to members of a radical Islamist party found guilty of war crimes.

Tabloid newspapers such as the Sun and the Daily Mail hound judges who pass, or even seek to justify, lenient sentences.